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Re: creation date property of item is r/o !
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Re: creation date property of item is r/o !


  • Subject: Re: creation date property of item is r/o !
  • From: Jeffrey Berman <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:59:48 -0600

On 2/27/05 11:33 AM, "John C. Welch" <email@hidden> wrote:

> On 2/27/05 10:22 AM, "Emile Schwarz" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Fortunately, after getting the error message, I went immediately checking the
>> Finder dictionary (instead of wasting hours for nothing).
>>
>> Someone knows why ?
>> Care to explain why ?
>> Do you know of any work-around ?
>
> The why doesn't matter. Get the dev tools and you can use SetFile to
> accomplish this.

The 'SetFile' command does let you change the file creation date.  However,
I've discovered that a 12 AM number needs to be set with "00:mm" time
notation.  For example,

SetFile -d "02/27/2005 12:01 AM" testfile

sets the creation date of file "testfile" to 12:01 *PM*.  However, the
following command:

SetFile -d "02/27/2005 00:01 AM" testfile

sets the creation date to the desired 12:01 AM time.


-Jeffrey Berman

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