Re: Set File Creation date
Re: Set File Creation date
- Subject: Re: Set File Creation date
- From: Emile Schwarz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 09:07:31 +0100
Hi,
you already get (and read) why the original questioneer want to change the
creation date.
Here's another usage (more 'modern' !):
You have Windows informations you put in a CD-R (a CD-RW and even a Memory
Stick) and you want to use them on your Macintosh Computer.
Unfortunately, the Apple translator used (MS-DOS File Translator or something
like that) with Mac OS X 10.3 (and probably previous) 'till 10.3.6 (I do not
tested yet 10.3.7) does not set the Creation Date of the copied objects.
The result is file with a bad Creation Date and the Finder displays the 1904 date :(
There is a solution to avoid this right now: copy the files using the LAN
(Ethernet cable between the two computers using Windows Sharing works fine for
me [I wasn't able to do the reverse: take the files from the Macintosh]).
A second work-around also exists, but I do not know how to do it: I had a CD-RW
with Windows files (html, jpg and so on) which do no have creation date under
Macintosh (correct dates under Windows). Someone makes a copy of that CD-RW on a
second CD-RW and all of a sudden, I was able to not loose the Creation Dates and
I even saw some folder contents (these folders were 'invisible' under Macintsh)
that I was able to copy to my Macintosh and then archive them.
Still no solution (to change the Creation Date using AppleScript) ?
Do you know how to copy Windows files using a Memory Stick (also using CD-R /
CD-RW) without loosing the files original Creation Date ?
In both Gnarlodious and my cases, it is legitimate - even for a newbie / simple
user - to be able to change the Creation Date.
TIA,
Emile
email@hidden wrote:
From: Gnarlodious <email@hidden>
Subject: Set File Creation date
To: Applescript <email@hidden>
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Is there any way to set a file's creation date?
This runs:
tell application "Finder" to set the creation date of (info for someFile) to
date "Thursday, December 2, 2004 11:28:16 PM"
but doesn't do anything.
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