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bash script to fix creation dates in a directory (Mac OS X)
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| cd "$1" | |
| for f in * ; do | |
| SetFile -d "$(GetFileInfo -m $f)" "$f" | |
| done |
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When importing files from my Zoom H4n pocket recorder, I was annoyed that the creation date for every file showed up as Unix time zero (as "Dec 31, 1969" to those of us west of GMT; "Jan 1 1970" for the rest of the world), so this is a quick script that will fix all the creation dates in the file specified by setting them to the same as the modification date. This is useful because the mod date will likely be updated but you might be interested in the date/time the actual recording was made.
Example command:
sh ./fix_creation_dates.sh /path/to/folder