OS X :: Checking Date Of File Creation In Mac?
Feb 23, 2009How do I check the real date of file creation in Mac OS X.
All files, I receive (mail, ...) have the created date, when I copied them in their respective folder.
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OS X :: How To Alter The Creation Date Of A File
Apr 21, 2009I can't seem to find a way to alter the creation date of a file. I have a project and mid-way through I copied everything into a new file to test something out. It's in a different format so it's impossible to simply port it back to the original file.
View 5 Replies View RelatedOS X V10.7 Lion :: Cannot Change File Creation Date
Feb 12, 2012I have files with no creation date or creation date 1969, etc (came from bad settings in camera).
Since I knew the date, I was able to easily fix it via touch:
touch -t 20090110 IMG_1023.JPGÂ
This used to set creation, modification, and access time to 20090111, in Snow Leopard.  However, I can no longer do this in Lion. It does set modification and access, but creation date is still screwed up.Â
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macbook pro 2007, Mac OS X (10.7.2), iPhone 3GS, 4, iPad2, latest iOS5
Software :: Changing Metadata Creation Date Of Pdf File?
Jun 22, 2010My question is how to handle the difference in creation date between the paper document and the scanned file. The paper files are from the past 50 years, but of course the file creation date of the scans is the date of the scan. How can I reconcile this? Ideally I would like to make the scan metadata creation date of the PDF/A the same as that of the original paper file creation date.
View 2 Replies View RelatedITunes :: Find The Creation Date Of A CD Burned In It?
Apr 30, 2012I popped it into the iMac and did a Get Info only to discover that its creation and modification dates were yesterdays! I then tried it in Toast 11 under Disk Info and got no dates at all. just technical data. DVDs do display the creation date in Get Info but not CDs.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), FCE 4 + FCS 3
OS X :: Finding Touch Command For Setting Creation Date
Jan 10, 2010I'm using the command "touch" in the terminal to set the creation date of some old home movies I'm dumping on HD.
I can move the creation date back with the following command:
MacPro:~ scott$ touch -t 200308311500 /Users/scott/Desktop/2-month-bath.mov
The problem now, I cannot move the date back up (when I fat finger)... EVEN if I move the modified date way in the future, the creation date won't move back up with it... Give the command a try on a garbage file and see what I mean.
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Photo Date Creation Being Changed?
May 5, 2012I didn't know where to post this question. When I import photos from my Canon T3i and my iPhone4, the creation date of the photo is the date imported, not the date I took the photo. While in Finder, if I look at the photo information, the creation date is the date the photo was imported (for both the Canon and iPhone photos). I'm trying to understand why this is happening. When I import the photos into iPhoto, the date I took the photo is there. While that seems like the solution, it isn't since I don't import all photos into iPhoto. If I look at the photos on the memory card, the date is correct. The only time the creation date is not correct is when I import on to my iMac or MacBook. I'm using Snow Leopard and have no plans to upgrade to Lion.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
OS X :: Sort By The Date A File Is Placed Into A Folder (Date Modified/Created Not Working)
Jun 3, 2010I have a folder where I place an ever growing collection of my favorite songs. Before I switched to Mac, on Windows, when I wanted to revisit songs I most recently added to the folder, I would sort the songs by the Date Modified and it would order the files I placed in the folder by date.
In OSX, however, there must be a slightly different meaning to "Date Modified," as it does not quite sort my songs by the order they were added. It gets some of it right, but there's plenty of files that are out of order--tune "x", which I know was placed in the folder a week ago is actually listed further down the list with songs placed in the folder months ago.
Is there a way to have OSX sort files in order of the date it was placed in a folder? Neither "Date Modified" nor "Date Created" works 100% as I thought it would. Or is the OSX definition of Date Modified/Created slightly different than Windows?
OS X :: File Creation Time Is Stuck At 19:08
Apr 26, 2009I'm having a wierd problem with my macbook (os x leopard). It seems like all information about when the file was created / modified is set to a certain time, 19:08. Every file on the computer says this time (the date is correct), even newly creted files and systemfiles. This creates some problem with itunes (newly added songs will not appear until that time in smart playlists etc) and apps like evernote.Does anyone got an idea what this might be?
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Jun 26, 2014I want to prevent ".DS_Store" file creation.Â
How can i do this?Â
MacBook Pro :: Disk Verification Gives Error During Checking Extended Attributes File
Jun 4, 2014MBP 2012 running on OSX10.9.3 crashes frequently. Disk Verification gives an error during "Checking extended attributes file." and asks for reboot and repair. No error could be detected and no repair would be done when DU is run during restart.
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Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
OS X :: How To Permanently Disable Safe Sleep & Sleep Image File Creation?
May 21, 2009In tiger you could easily disable safe sleep and remove the sleep image file but in Leopard this seems to have changed. Yes you can disable safe sleep & remove sleep image files but only temporarily. As soon as you restart or change energy settings back to default, leopard automatically reverts the safe sleep settings to default and starts creating an image file again
Is there no way to permanently disable/remove these?
OS X :: How To Sort File By Create Date
Sep 18, 2010How do I sort files by create date in Finder? I have Name, Date Modified, Size and Kind. I see no way to add File Create Date.
View 2 Replies View RelatedOS X :: How To Add Current Date To Automator Save File Name
Jun 23, 2010I have an automator script I made myself that I use constantly. When I run the script one of the steps takes a screenshot and saves it as a PNG file. When I run the script again, it replaces the old PNG file with a new one. I would really like it to save the PNG file so that file name begins with the current date at the beginning of the name. Meaning the PNG file would be named something like "6/23/10 screenshot". Is this possible?
I'd be almost as happy if I could at least get it to simply make a new PNG with any random filename just so long as it doesn't overwrite the old version. That way I could simply look at the date created column in the finder and get the same info.
OS X Mountain Lion :: How To Create ZIP File With Date In Terminal
Aug 27, 2014I am looking for a command to create a .zip file with todays date of /Library/Caches/
What is the command for creating a .zip file with date in Terminal?
Applications :: Save Location And Date To Picture File In Iphoto 09?
Oct 17, 2010I have a fairly big photo library in iphoto 09 and I am wondering if there is an option to save information like location, description, date etc to the actual picture file. The reason I ask is because when I went to export some pictures it didnt save any of this information whatsoever and with 4000 photos thats a lot of work to go add all that information back to. Anyone else have experience with this?
View 4 Replies View RelatedOS X Technologies :: Add Time/date Stamp To Screen Capture File Names?
Jul 4, 2012I'm trying to add time/date stamp to my screen capture file names. (at the moment it's just 'Picture 1' etc..)I've tried the following command in terminal but have not had success.
defaults write com.apple.screencapture name "datestamp" at "timestamp"Â
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Mac OS X (10.5.8)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Force Folder Date Modified To Change When Enclosed File Updates?
Jun 19, 2012Normally, a Folder "Date Modified" does not change unless the folder itself changes (name, etc). Is it possible to "force" a Folder "Date Modified" timestamp to change when an enclosed file is changed/updated? I want to look at a folder and know the date/time of the latest enclosed file/folder change. This is especially important to me when using syncing apps as I want to visually see by a folders date that a sync has occurred (the actual file change may be deeply nested within the folder.)
View 1 Replies View RelatedOS X :: Weird Date Settings / Showing Wrong Modification Date?
Feb 7, 2007I've noticed recently that when in Finder, all folders/files have a Modified Date of somewhere in January 2009 or January 2008, regardless of when it was actually modified/created. My clock at the top left-hand corner says Oct 20 though. Any thoughts?
View 24 Replies View RelatedIntel Mac :: Can't Log In After New User Creation?
Mar 20, 2012I have created a second user with administrative privileges. Doing so I had to restart my computer. After initial restart the login page loaded showing original and new user but it is dead. I can't log in any of the acount nor to restart - had to turn off the computer.For what its worth here are some thins i did later but so far with no solution.Â
1. I have tried to entr via secure startup but it got to the same dead page.Â
2. I have strated the compute from a backup disk with hope of repairing things from there but I have no idea what or how to do it. Â
Software :: Unable To Change Date And Time Settings / Date And Time Preferences Freezes
May 22, 2008I am on Tiger 10.4.11 on Mac Book Pro Intel duo. All updates except for Parallels installed. Have run permissions repairs and preferential treatment. Tried to delete preferences for system ... Every time I try to uncheck the box marked or open the Date and Time preferences, it freezes and have to force quit.
Applications :: What's The Best Software For Website Creation
Feb 18, 2009whats the best software out there for the mac if your into developing websites
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Jul 19, 2008When I convert a MS Word document (MS Word 2004 for Mac) to a PDF document, using Adobe Acrobat (v. 8 for Mac), the hyperlinks that were inserted into the Word document are not present in the PDF document (hyperlink text is present, but it is not clickable or colored/underlined as it was in orig. Word document).
Please inform me of any setting in Acrobat or Word that I may need to change to get the hyperlinks to carry over properly during conversion.
I really don't want to go through all of my PDFs that I have created and re-insert hyperlinks manually, as there are TONS of them..!
OS X :: Finder Search Cannot Specify Range Of Creation Dates
Nov 30, 2009Using the Finder in 10.5.8, pressing Cmd-F to get to the Search window. I want to look for jpeg files created during December of 2008. I first specify file type = image, press the + to add another constraint, choose "creation date before" . . . today's date comes up by default, with little up/down arrows at the right to allow changes. Well, the arrows do nothing, and I can't edit the date string directly. The only change I'm able to make is when holding down the Alt key, which allows me to use the little up/down arrows to cycle through the months (but not days or years).
View 2 Replies View RelatedApplications :: Documentation / Tutorial Creation Software?
Dec 10, 2010I want to create some tutorials for my software class. I remember seeing some software for the mac that is excellent for the job. I can't remember what the name of the software is.
The software is as follows:
- You take some screenshots of various stages of using the software
- You then add text in the software
- You can then create a tutorial out of it
Applications :: Free Mac Logo Creation Software?
Mar 24, 2009I'm trying to design a Logo for my website and am after x2 bits of information.
1. Free software that I can create a basic logo in (that's easy to use preferably)
PS Mac Software that is &
2. (a bit off topic) A source of free unlicensed imagery (any websites out there?) that I can use on my website without breaking any laws.
OS X :: Intro Movie And User Creation Process On Old Mac?
Oct 23, 2009I'm about to sell an older Mac, and my buyer asked if I could install Snow Leopard and iLife for him, as well as update the machine. Of course it's easy to do this, but this will leave him with a user account he didn't configure himself. I was wondering how to update the mac and install the software and then reset it so that when he first boots it up he does get the intro movie and the user creation process? I found this guide, but it's referring to iBooks so it's pretty old, can anybody confirm it still works for Snow Leopard? [URL]
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May 6, 2012I am exploring the possibility of scripting the creation of smart playlists in iTunes. As I understand it this can only be achieved with GUI scripting. I have come across a couple of threads which suggest this can be achieved:Â
[URL]
however both generate an error for me. The problem appears to be around the line "tell scroll area 1 of group 1 of window 1". I get the error: System Events got an error: Can't get group 1 of window 1 of process "iTunes". Invalid index.Â
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Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7), 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7 8GB RAM
Final Cut Pro X :: Latest IMovie Doesn't Have Chapter Creation
Sep 11, 2014I have the latest iMovie. 2014 version. I want to make a music DVD. To access individual songs, chapters are needed. The latest iMovie doesn't have chapter creation. I know that iMovie 9 allows making chapters, but when I tried that, it worked, but the quality of the movie suffered. The picture quality looked less clear. I will download the trial version of Final Cut Pro X..The chapter creation in iDVD is not good enough and I can't find any other DVD creation software that does it.
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iMac 3.06 Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.5.6)
Mac OS X Lion Server :: Finding The Scripting References For Web Domain Creation?
Feb 14, 2012I have been unable to find any references on how to best automate certain "tasks" in Lion so that I can do the following:Â
create predefined DNS names based upon the clients domain name
create predefnined web address based upon the just created DNSÂ
For example.... We have the customer "Sammy's Flower Garden" and his domain is "sammysflowergarden.com". At the command line, I would type:
$ clientsetup sammysflowergarden.com This would then create a base folder structure (this part has already been written)ClientDomains    -    S         -    sammysflowergarden.com              -    production              -    staging              -    archive              -    design                   -    template    Â
[code]....
From what I have read, alot of modifications outside of the Lion serveradmin tooling can result in some rather unusual if not nasty behaviour. If this is true, then I would assume that I could not just write out to a file in /var/named/ and have it automaticly picked up by the server? The same for the apache instance? I still want to be able to use the GUI interface when needed. Â
