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Preserve timestamps when copying from FAT to HFS+
Authored by: jamworks on Nov 25, '09 09:42:37PM

Thanks for acknowledging "Mac OS X seems to only regard the modification date. This is a bug/issue . . .".

This has been a long standing issue for me. In the process of keeping everything organized on my Apple computer, I depend on sorting by Date Created in the Finder's List View all the time. (In fact, I consider original file creation time stamps to be sacred information, to be preserved through years of migrating data to new computers.)

I solved my issues with importing JPEG files from a digital camera by using Image Capture, instead of iPhoto. The camera's date/time stamp shows up as the Date Created on the Finder level, and therefore it is not necessary to access the EXIF data to sort by date.

However, audio files copied from my Zoom H2 Recorder, TIFF files provided on a CD, etc., and numerous other files from FAT systems, show up with only dashes in the Date Created column, and only dashes next to Created in Get Info. I'm using Mac OS 10.4.11, so last year I asked Apple Store personnel to look at examples of the same files in Leopard on one of their computers. Leopard's Finder showed December 31, 1903 as the Date Created in List View, and dashes in Get Info.

Has any of this been fixed in Snow Leopard?






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