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Similar ThreadsĪ Better Finder Rename 11.24 - File, photo, and MP3 batch renamerĪ Better Finder Attributes 7.03 – Change file creation and modification datesĬompare that story with one from the start of my executive search career. It is a skill we would all do better having learned, practiced.” 1 To become an active listener, one must first understand the attributes of active listening: 1. Department of State, “active listening is a skill taught to teachers and police officers, counselors, ministers, rabbis and priests. It combines photo-shooting date and file date changing along with a few unique tricks of its own.

I guess having done some else other file management wise in Finder prematurely caused the mess up in the first place.A Better Finder Attributes 6.21 is the ultimate file-tweaking tool for OS X.

And this time I left the Finder window in front, until all tags updated (can take some 20-60 seconds when tagging hundreds/thousands of files) not to mess it up again.

But due to having worked with incremental backups, I could restore them from one of the intermediary folder.

In my case preserving the creation dates mattered to understand the image file genesis.

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And when unzipping the file plus all metadata is restored and the broken/invalid creation dates are fixed automatically.

All macOS metadata is preserved (Finder Tags, Spotlight Comment, dates, permissions, etc).

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You can simply zip the file(s)s them with Finder's integrated ZIP command.Or by a gratis and builtin function of Finder:.SetFile -d "$(GetFileInfo -m "broken-file.ext")" broken-file.ext.If the creation dates don't matter to you, just set them to the same as the modification date.So during the batch assignment of tags something broke and left the file dates in a bad result.This is the fallback date if the creation date is 0 or NULL or otherwise invalid I assume.

They all had a Creation Date of (aka January 24th, 1984) the birth date of the Macintosh.

A common Finder tag which I assigned them in a massive batch assignment (500 files or more at once).

All the files that showed these strange symptoms had two things in common:.

Reason: The Creation Date of those files was broken/invalid After much investigation I had finally found the reason What can be the reason for this odd behavior?

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Relaunching Finder or restarting the Mac didn't help either.Also compared if some of the exotic Mac filesystem flags may have been set differently with GetFileInfo -a plus the respective attribute letter, such as locked or inited.Compared every attribute by mdls between one of the broken files vs.Checked unix file permissions, owner, etc.In the final folder some of the files showed the odd behavior described above. But along the duplications and tagging something must have went wrong.

Thank to APFS being a copy-on-write system that folder duplication worked ultra fast.Should I mess up along the way, I could always go back phase by phase due to my incremental folder backups.

And each file grew by a tag per each processing stage to document what was done on it specifically (they got different treatment). As such I kept all intermediary stages in folders.And tagged the files with the processing they received. In between I duplicated a whole folder (and the files in it) to then process the files through the next stage.I did some heavy multi-stage processing of hundreds of PNG files.Opening their info dialog shows everything greyed out, no interactions possible.I cannot not tag, rename, or open them.