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Re: Creation date of Feb 14th 1946 - Why?
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Re: Creation date of Feb 14th 1946 - Why?


  • Subject: Re: Creation date of Feb 14th 1946 - Why?
  • From: "Sean McBride" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:07:32 -0500
  • Organization: Rogue Research Inc.

On 11/16/09 5:16 PM, Matt Gough said:

>Can someone let me know if there is something magical about a file
>having its creation date set to:
>
>1946-02-14 08:34:56 +0000
>
>I am guessing it is a special flag used by Finder to let it know that a
>file is busy (since even after a restart a file with such a creation
>date is shown dimmed)
>Am I correct?
>
>Are there any other magic dates that are being used?
>
>FYI - I am writing a FUSE file system and need to prevent such dates
>ending up at the back-end.

Perhaps you're seeing kMagicBusyCreationDate?  See Finder.h comments.

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Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada


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