At Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:24:23 -0500 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lynne_Rudi=E9?= <lynnerudie at verizon.net> wrote: > > ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee. > ** You too can help the group > ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > To my knowledge you will lose your original creation dates when you > import to a mac. Maybe somebody geekier than me (than I?) would know > how to do it but my experience is that the mac will date a new file to > the time when it is imported because, according to the mac, it didn't > exist before that time. One suggestion for a work around is to create > folders on the mac with the creation dates you want to save and import > the files into those folders. When I move files from one mac drive to > another, if the dates are important to me I sometimes alter the file > name to include the relevant dates. So far that's the best I've been > able to do. MacOSX, being UNIX under-the-hood, should have the standard UNIX shell command 'touch'. One should be able to fire up a terminal and do: touch -t STAMP file file file... where STAMP is: [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] CC == century YY == year MM == month DD == date hh == hour mm == minute ss == second (for example: 200802010000.00 is Feb 1, 2008 at midnight.) Just get a listing of the original dates before you port the files and post fix them after the port/conversion process. Warning: you will have to escape/quote file names with spaces in them. > > > On Feb 1, 2008, at 9:42 AM, Scott Reed wrote: > > > ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee. > > ** You too can help the group > > ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > > > > I have a friend who has a lot of files to port to a Mac. In his > > attempts so far he has not been able to retain the original creation > > dates. If there is there anyone here that has time to help him out, > > please contact me. It is likely this would turn into a longer term > > support arrangement if you are interested. > > Scott Reed > > 665-2041 > > _______________________________________________ > > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion > > list. > > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the > > Members page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > > -- Robert Heller -- Get the Deepwoods Software FireFox Toolbar! Deepwoods Software -- Linux Installation and Administration http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Web Hosting, with CGI and Database heller at deepsoft.com -- Contract Programming: C/C++, Tcl/Tk