BillyBaldwin
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Q: iCal Creation Date info - how do u find it?

Does anyone know a way to discover when an entry to iCal was created? specifically the date and time that it was created. Its not showing up on a CTRL click, that just shows the appointment date and time.

Could really use some help on this, its very important I find a way to get this.

Billy

Macbook pro 15", Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Feb 7, 2011 9:24 AM

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Q: iCal Creation Date info - how do u find it?

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  • by jimvarian,

    jimvarian jimvarian Feb 25, 2011 9:26 PM in response to BillyBaldwin
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    Feb 25, 2011 9:26 PM in response to BillyBaldwin
    In the File menu, select Export, then select Export in the submenu.

    Save the calendar that the event is in.

    Open the file in a spreadsheet program like Excel — using tab delimited is fine.

    Data will all be in one very long column, so you probably want to use the search function to locate the event by name (should have "SUMMARY" in front of it).

    About eight lines below that (give or take) will be the event's creation date — the first eight digits after "CREATED" are the creation date.

  • by NOCR,

    NOCR NOCR Aug 30, 2016 3:29 PM in response to jimvarian
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    Aug 30, 2016 3:29 PM in response to jimvarian

    Are you ****** serious????    
    Why can't you just bust a ctrl+i and get the timestamp?

     

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  • by nbevan,

    nbevan nbevan Apr 26, 2015 3:03 AM in response to BillyBaldwin
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    Apr 26, 2015 3:03 AM in response to BillyBaldwin

    The simplest way is to use Finder to view the Calendars folder in the Library, then search for the name of the calendar entry, using the search option "System Files are included".  From the results you can select the appropriate calendar entry (double click to be sure), and CMD-I will give the exact creation time.

  • by John Potts,

    John Potts John Potts Aug 29, 2016 4:57 AM in response to nbevan
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    Aug 29, 2016 4:57 AM in response to nbevan

    Thanks for your helpful tip - that solved a problem for me!