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Re: Permissions problem mac OS X 10.9.5 server
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Re: Permissions problem mac OS X 10.9.5 server


  • Subject: Re: Permissions problem mac OS X 10.9.5 server
  • From: Jim Weisbin <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 15:38:44 -0400

Yvan KOENIG <email@hidden <mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:

> On Jun 15, 2017, at 3:00 PM, email@hidden wrote:
>
>> on open these_items
>>      tell application "Finder"
>>              repeat with i from 1 to the count of these_items
>>
>>                      set this_item to (item i of these_items)
>>                      if kind of this_item is "Folder" then
>>                              set theCreationDate to creation date of
>> this_item
>>                              --      display dialog theCreationDate as string
>>                              set this_item's modification date to
>> theCreationDate
>>                      end if
>>              end repeat
>>      end tell
>> end open
>>
>> I’m certain that the admin has the permissions to modify these folders. Is
>> it a limitation of OS X 10.9.5?
>>
>> I think I could do this with SetFile, but this solution seemed to be the
>> easiest and quickest to write.
>>
>
> As far as I remember, Applescript may change a modification date but can't
> change a creation one.
>
>

I’m not setting the creation date. I’m setting the mod date, getting it from
the creation date:

set this_item's modification date to theCreationDate

works on my laptop on MacOS 10.12.5


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