On Jul 7, 2005, at 11:02 AM, John Francis wrote:
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A good summary.
Is there an easy fix (software upgrade, Photoshop action or other
software) that will put the correct data in the correct fields in all
of these "views?"
Not that I'm aware of. It would be fairly simple to write a little
utilty that set an empty creation date to the modified date, but I
can't help you there - I don't have a Mac.
There are several options:
If you use various utilities to transfer your files from media to
hard disk, they often supply options to set the Created and Modified
date stamps on the files. I use iView Media Pro 2 most of the time,
and have it set the Created field to be the same as the Modified
field when it transfers files from media card to my working drive.
If you have the Xcode development tools installed, there is a command
line utility available ("SetFile") which can be easily scripted to
retrieve the Modified date and set the Creation date to be the same
for each file in the file list you hand it. With .PEF files, this
will always be correct as .PEF files are essentially read-only once
transferred from the camera to a hard drive.
I haven't done this yet, but I believe there is a relatively simple
way to use AppleScript to retrieve the Modified date and set it to
the Creation date, as in the above.
I'll ask my friends who know AppleScript ... :-)
Godfrey
