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Curtis Tucker Author

Level 2

290 points

Arrange by "Date Added" lists recently added files with "No Date"

One of my favorite new features in Finder is the option to "Arrange by Date Added".

I have a folder with three items added today. As expected, when viewed in Finder they are listed at the top of the window (in column view) in the "Today" section.

When I want to add these items as a new "source" in Handbrake, the newly added items in this folder do not appear in the "Today" section. They appear in the "No Date" section instead.

The same thing happens when, after processing with Handbrake, I want to add the newly created media files to my iTunes library. They appear in the "No Date" section of the window rather than the "Today" section.

To recap: Files added to a folder today appear in the "Today" section when viewed in Finder. The same files appear in the "No Date" section when viewed through applications other than Finder.

Has anyone else seen this problem?

Mac mini (Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Aug 18, 2011 8:00 PM

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T. Cruse

Level 1

9 points

Posted on Feb 18, 2017 9:28 PM

I have a solution that worked for me. While you are in your application, for me, let's say I'm looking at the finder through Indesign, trying to find my last modified file. you click the "Change item arrangement" icon and select "None." this lists the true last date modified files, instead of filing them under "No Date." "Change item arrangement" icon is shown below. hope this helps!

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Mbroa

Level 1

0 points

Oct 7, 2015 7:14 PM in response to Harutyun

Hey buddy,

This fixed my setup. Any word on a fix for this overall (w/o having to restart chrome)? Would this be a chrome to MacOS issue or a browser issue or what?

Feb 3, 2016 3:13 PM in response to Mbroa

This is not a "Chrome to Mac OS" only issue. It is broken every single day in Safari for me, or any other app where I want to sort by newly added so that I can "open" (select) or "save" a file in respect to the recent ones I saved or opened. I'd like to point out that all the dates for the files sorted under "NO DATE" are filled in with today's date, so even if I sort by date modified, date added or date created, it still does not bring today's files to the top, but rather has them way down under "NO DATE". Annoying since ALL the "date" fields have values! Sorting by NONE may work, but it shouldn't have to be done that way. It's been a bug since 2011 according to this thread.

Kanimies

Level 1

4 points

Aug 24, 2016 8:50 PM in response to bunnislippers

This issue still persists and seems that Apple has no intention on fixing it.

Easiest way to reproduce: Start Safari.

Leave your computer and Safari on for the night. As the day changes, the choose file -dialog will no longer show files modified/added today under 'Today' but under 'No date' at the bottom of the list instead, apparently because it seems that the date this functionality relies on never gets updated after it its initialized (upon program startup?).

Could be a 'feature' in an underlying library that's hard to fix as the date change would need to be injected there somehow or whatnot.

Still, terribly annoying and someone should definitely get their hands on fixing it.

Kanimies

Level 1

4 points

Aug 24, 2016 8:53 PM in response to Kanimies

Based on what I stated in my previous post - resetting NVRAM or PRAM or whatnot wouldn't be even a 'temporary fix' to this issue as it does no more to it than simply restarting the program one is experiencing the problems with.

While it may seem like it fixes the problem, it will 'reappear' the very next day if the program has been left running since the previous day.

So the only workaround at the moment would be to restart the program daily, which does sound rather counter intuitive.

Oct 16, 2016 10:30 AM in response to Curtis Tucker

I am having the same problem (or at least very similar). 😕

But, it just started today for the first time ever.

I am using OS X - 10.11.6, I only use Safari (so my problem does not have anything to do with Chrome).

The files I opened and saved today or created today, are all being filed under the "no date" category. I opened files with several programs such as:

- MS Word (urgh!)

- TexMaker 😉

- and even I file created by Mac's functionality the take a picture of my screen (that is a functionality within the Mac OS)

Does anyone knows a fix?

Apple must say something about this... Does anyone from Apple ever post an official reply to this community?

I am pretty sad about this... 😢

Feb 20, 2017 1:58 PM in response to Curtis Tucker

Just ran into this bug too. It looks like it has been around for years. It is sad how apple has been loosing its quality image.

Arrange by "Date Added" lists recently added files with "No Date"