Files showing modified date of december 31 1969

Snaklidoo

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December 31, 1969, or more specifically "Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 GMT 1970" corresponds to the internal time being zero. As you obviously suspected, the most common cause is a flat battery, so it is strange you are having this problem.

I have Office X installed an it hasn't had this problem. Did you first uninstall the Trial version?

Well there have been reports about problems if the trial version wasn't completely un-installed before installing the full version, but I have no first hand knowledge of this: I never had the trial version.

You may find related posts elsewhere on the forum – I'd try that first. But in the absence of any other approach, I would be inclined to uninstall all Office files and then start from scratch with a new install. There are a number of Read Me files which tell you where all the bits are installed: it would be worth going through these to make sure you have everything.

Sorry I can't be more help, but continue trying local documents until that works!

I was reading thru the posts and noticed you said that the file that you were opening was on a windows pc. The battery on the windows pc could be dead or the time and date are off on that machine. Thus giving you the wrong date.

After using Panther on a Powerbook for 1 1/2 years I bought 2 iMacs and upgraded the laptop to Tiger (latest updates all around). I relied on using finder to copy from OS X to DOS/Windows FAT32 shared drives and now files appear with a zero date on the PC's.

There are no changes in the home LAN, the date & time on the PC's are correct. The problem is the same copying with iView Media Pro (for images) or using the finder.

HELP! This has rendered a lot of mac hardware useless!