[Gamoe]

Greetings,

Does anyone know how I can modify the "Date Created" date shown in the "Get Info" window?

I have an odd problem where the files appear with invalid creation dates (Sun, Dec 2, 1979, 8:04 AM) or simply no creation date (field reports "--"). In these cases, the "Modified" date is actually the correct creation date, but, of course, it is changed when I modify the files,.

I want to keep the creation dates intact, though. So, I need to modify the "Created" date and input the correct date. Anyone know how to do this in Mac OS X?

[depolitic]

Look at the terminal:

The command is touch just enter:

man touch

You will get this which will instruct you in the use of the command.

----------------------
TOUCH(1) System General Commands Manual TOUCH(1)

NAME
touch - change file access and modification times

SYNOPSIS
touch [-acfhm] [-r file] [-t [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.SS]] file ...

DESCRIPTION
The touch utility sets the modification and access times of files to the
current time of day. If the file doesn't exist, it is created with
default permissions.

The following options are available:

-a Change the access time of the file. The modification time of the
file is not changed unless the -m flag is also specified.

-c Do not create the file if it does not exist. The touch utility
does not treat this as an error. No error messages are displayed
and the exit value is not affected.

-f Attempt to force the update, even if the file permissions do not
currently permit it.

-h If file is a symbolic link, access and/or modification time of
the link is changed. This option implies -c.

-m Change the modification time of the file. The access time of the
file is not changed unless the -a flag is also specified.

-r Use the access and modifications times from the specified file
instead of the current time of day.

-t Change the access and modification times to the specified time.
The argument should be in the form ``[[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.SS]''
where each pair of letters represents the following:

CC The first two digits of the year (the century).
YY The second two digits of the year. If ``YY'' is
specified, but ``CC'' is not, a value for ``YY''
between 69 and 99 results in a ``CC'' value of 19.
Otherwise, a ``CC'' value of 20 is used.
MM The month of the year, from 1 to 12.
DD The day of the month, from 1 to 31.
hh The hour of the day, from 0 to 23.
mm The minute of the hour, from 0 to 59.
SS The second of the minute, from 0 to 61.

If the ``CC'' and ``YY'' letter pairs are not specified, the val-
ues default to the current year. If the ``SS'' letter pair is
not specified, the value defaults to 0.

The touch utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

[Arkham_c]

Try this little tool I whipped up for you:

Drop Creation Dater

Should do what you need. If not, PM me and let me know.

[Gamoe]

Originally posted by Arkham_c:
Try this little tool I whipped up for you:

Drop Creation Dater

Should do what you need. If not, PM me and let me know.

Thank you Arkham! This is awesome, exactly what I need and by far the most user friendly method! Worked perfectly.

Did you create this program?


Thanks for the info too, depolitic, but I think I'll try it Arkham's way this time.

[Arkham_c]

Originally posted by Gabriel Morales:
Thank you Arkham! This is awesome, exactly what I need and by far the most user friendly method! Worked perfectly.

Did you create this program?

Yes, I thought it might be useful so I put it together.

Glad it solved your problem.