Does anyone know of a tool/script/process to change the file creation date on each file in a group of files to match each file’s modification date? The files are in various subfolders.
Background: I’m moving documents from my document management system into my case management system. An automated process moved most of them correctly, but I have four cases I need to move manually. When I download them from the old system, it preserves the correct modification date, but changes each document’s creation date to the date of the download. So I want to copy each document’s modification date over to the creation date.
I found a post by @tjluoma where he came up with a script to change the creation date of a PDF based on a title, and I’m wondering if there is a way to do something similar by grabbing the modification date.
Thanks, everyone. I hadn’t seen those ways of doing it, although they might be above my ability. Fortunately, after further digging this morning, I found an alternate way to download the files from the source which does preserve the creation date.
For anyone who stumbles upon this post and wants a GUI method of doing this, check out A Better Finder Attributes, which I came across in my search for a solution. Really powerful way to alter a file’s metadata.
