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Strange Dates
Wednesday, July 26, 2006 / Mac OS X
In “List View,” my dates-Date Created and Date Modified-are identical. Now when I modifiy a file, the date created changes to match the date modified. What did I do wrong? How can I correct it?
I had trouble recreating this here on my system. Even when I used “Save As” instead of “Save” it retained the original creation date. There is a possibility that this problem could be caused by saving to a PC formatted drive. Both NTFS and FAT32 drives have problems with Mac file dates. To check the format of the drive, click on it once and push the Apple key and “I” key at the same time. Under the “General” section you want to look for the “Format” entry. That will tell you what its format is. Mac OS Extended is what you want to see for Mac only drives. If you see something without “Mac OS Extended” in it, you will want to backup the data and reformat from Disk Utility. However, only reformat if this is just used for Mac-only data, sharing the drive with Windows PCs requires different formatting. Hope that gets you a little further, let me know how it works out.
