On 2014-07-16, at 9:15 AM, George N. White III wrote: > I gether you are looking for a command-line tool. Have you considered "ditto"
Yep. Also failed, although I forgot what it messed up. I do remember running into the: "ditto foo bar" is not the same as "cp -r foo bar" issue. Ok, retested: same ctime issue for directories. But it does manage extended attributes, so that's a step up from cp/rsync, and the same as tmutil restore (without needing it backed up first). Ctime is going to be modified whenever a file is created. So it would need to be set on the way up on a directory, not when the directory is first made. (Odd that the mtimes do get set correctly -- those also get updated on file/subfolder creation. So they must be being set on the way up). I suppose it's understandable that a generic unix tool doesn't know how to set a Ctime, but I thought that the private API used by apple's file manager does support changing that. So any apple supplied / apple aware tool would be able to use those file manager calls and update things. Right? (Or am I looking for something that does not exist?) _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
