[Hidden-tech] PC to Mac file porting help wanted

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:24:23 -0500 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lynne_Rudi=E9?= <lynnerudie at verizon.net> wrote:

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> 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.



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> On Feb 1, 2008, at 9:42 AM, Scott Reed wrote:
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> > 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
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