Re: Changing File Creation/Modification Dates
Re: Changing File Creation/Modification Dates
- Subject: Re: Changing File Creation/Modification Dates
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 07:21:33 +0100
At 23:25 +0100 12/02/01, Nick Matsakis wrote:
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I'm working on a script which takes a bunch of my old WordPerfect files
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and converts them to PDF. One of the hitches is that I would like for the
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PDF files to have the same creation/modification times as the original
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files. This leads to two questions:
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1) How can I set a particular files creation/modification date to be
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identical to that of another file?
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2) How can I set that information to arbitrary values?
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Incidentally, is there anything at the HFS level that prevents the
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creation date from being later than the modification date? What about at
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the Finder/OS level?
I'm afraid there is no high level solution to set an arbitrary creation
date. Modification dates are changed by script - I suppose you can set it
to ages ago.
Emmanuel