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Best disk utility to repair creation/modification dates?
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Tennberg
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Aug 13, 2004, 01:12 PM
 
Hi everyone,

Before I started working on my company's new OS X image for use worldwide, I had zapped the PRAM on the PowerBook I'm using to create it. I then installed 10.3, modified the date/time to the correct info, updated it to 10.3.5, and installed all the necessary apps.

I then noticed that some of the creation and modification dates on some of the Apple apps (iPhoto, iSync, etc.) are from 1976.

This does *not* seem to affect any performance in a test account I created on the machine.

Should I worry about these creation/modification dates? If I should, what is the best utility to repair them with no problems? I've heard Norton Utilities on OS X isn't that great, but I know older versions of it would repair dates under OS 9.

Thanks for the help!
     
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Aug 13, 2004, 03:30 PM
 
I believe any of the Utility apps should do it. I think even Disk utility will fix this problem. Disk Warrior and TechTool Pro 4 should do the job if Disk util doesn't.
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