Migration Assistant: Files show today's date

There are four date options in Finder - right click the title bar and you'll see Date Added, Date Created, Date Modified and Date Last Opened.

Carokai wrote:

Migration assistant has imported all my files with todays date.

Thank you for that. Unfortunately ‘Date modified’, ‘Date Created’ and ‘Date Added’ all show yesterday’s date rather than the date the file was actually created.

i had to use migration assistant as the Mac refused to recognise my Samsung T7 which held a lot of my back ups.

re: "Migration assistant has imported all my files with todays date."

You would hope so— Date modified’, ‘Date Created’ and ‘Date Added’ would be preserved...

Typically Mac to Mac I never had an issue using Migration Assistant—Time Machine preserves your Date Created and Date Modified timestamps when moving data to a new machine

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Not sure what is " Samsung T7".... an external backup(?) formatted how?

Was this from a Windows machine to Mac...?

ref: Transfer from PC to Mac with Migration Assistant - Apple Support

I suspect you can erase the machine and try again

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