You can make a difference in the Apple Support Community!
When you sign up with your Apple Account, you can provide valuable feedback to other community members by upvoting helpful replies and User Tips.
When you sign up with your Apple Account, you can provide valuable feedback to other community members by upvoting helpful replies and User Tips.
Hi, I'm trying to change a file's creation date ("date created") using the terminal command touch (touch -t 201904171523 filename.xxx) but it won't do that: it only changes modification date ("date modified"). I'm confident that it used to work in "High Sierra". Has anyone a clue? Thank you
MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.14
What you have from me seems to suggest that the Unix touch command doesn't change a creation date as it is currently described. No doubt a third-party command may do the trick, but I don't know what it is.
What you have from me seems to suggest that the Unix touch command doesn't change a creation date as it is currently described. No doubt a third-party command may do the trick, but I don't know what it is.
The man page for Touch does not indicate a change to the creation time:
The touch utility sets the modification and access times of files. If
any file does not exist, it is created with default permissions.
By default, touch changes both modification and access times. The -a and
-m flags may be used to select the access time or the modification time
individually. Selecting both is equivalent to the default. By default,
the timestamps are set to the current time. The -t flag explicitly spec-
ifies a different time, and the -r flag specifies to set the times those
of the specified file. The -A flag adjusts the values by a specified
amount.
Hi Kappy, if I'm not wrong (I might, though) I used a few workarounds to change modification date/time using the -mt options to the touch command and the -t option alone to change the creation date. I stumbled on a few hints here and there that helped me do that (change both creation and modification dates/times). I was just curious to find out why it doesn't seem to work out on Mojave the way it used to in Sierra and High Sierra. Thank you again.
Thank you, I appreciated. —R.
Change creation date of a file using terminal command touch
