Some files/documents show wrong dates, sizes, file formats.
For example I rendered 10 images in succession via Photoshop, and some of them came out 3x the file size and with yesterday's date.
On other occasions some jpeg/png files would show up in Finder as "Adobe Photoshop document".
This behavior is not limited to Photoshop, so that's why i'm discussing it on the mac forum.
Any suggestions on how i can remedy this issue?
When a file is overwritten in place, the creation date can stay old while the modification date updates, and depending on your Finder column setup you might be looking at a mix of cached metadata versus true modified time. The 27 MB size also tells those three weren’t exported with the same compression settings as the 8.6 MB ones, meaning Photoshop likely reused prior file data instead of doing a clean write.
To confirm, right-click one of the “wrong” files > Get Info and check both Created and Modified dates, then run stat 03.png in Terminal and compare. If Terminal shows consistent modification times but Finder looks odd, it’s metadata/indexing. If the Created date is actually yesterday, you’re overwriting old files.
To fix this, export into an empty folder or enable “Ask When Overwriting” in Photoshop so you’re not writing over existing files silently. If this is happening on an external exFAT drive, that would make the behavior even more inconsistent, APFS avoids this entirely.
When a file is overwritten in place, the creation date can stay old while the modification date updates, and depending on your Finder column setup you might be looking at a mix of cached metadata versus true modified time. The 27 MB size also tells those three weren’t exported with the same compression settings as the 8.6 MB ones, meaning Photoshop likely reused prior file data instead of doing a clean write.
To confirm, right-click one of the “wrong” files > Get Info and check both Created and Modified dates, then run stat 03.png in Terminal and compare. If Terminal shows consistent modification times but Finder looks odd, it’s metadata/indexing. If the Created date is actually yesterday, you’re overwriting old files.
To fix this, export into an empty folder or enable “Ask When Overwriting” in Photoshop so you’re not writing over existing files silently. If this is happening on an external exFAT drive, that would make the behavior even more inconsistent, APFS avoids this entirely.
Hi,
Try to run DiskUtility FirstAid on your starts up disk and see if it reports something error or pass safely.
Edit:
"Mac files show wrong dates, sizes, formats: Some files/documents show wrong dates, sizes, file formats.[...]"
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Menubar Showing Incorrect Dates:
A. Single-Out this User:
For troubleshooting purposes, try creating a new Administrator user. Then, log into it, seeing if you get this error again. If so, then it is an issue with the macOS. If not, then it is an issue pertaining to this current user. Then, log back into your current user, and trash this user you just created.
B. Reset Finder:
C. Reshow the Date Items in Tab Tar:
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I see the same behaviour, Finder shows absolute nonsense for file size and modification stamps. I see this happening very frequently, for example if I split a video into chapters using ffmpeg one of the resultant, newly created files will often have a timestamp months in the past while the others are correct. I've just looked at a file I created this way, Finder shows a size of ~710MB (info shows the same but size on disk as ~130MB which is the correct size). The information shown in Finder does not match stat or (unsurprisingly) the output of ls etc. I've always found Finder to be absolute crap in virtually every way but this terrible behaviour seems to have appeared fairly recently
Mac files show wrong dates, sizes, formats
