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Q: Does TimeMachine recover dates of files?

Last week I formatted my Mac and used TimeMachine backup to restore stuff. Today I realized that TimeMachine backup does not backup attributes like 'Date Added', 'Date Modified' etc. for files. I know, technically the 'Date Added' value of a specific file should be the date that I got them from the backup. But it'd be good to have the other as an option.

 

So, are there any options for recovering date attributes for files that I missed?

 

Cheers.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4), TimeCapsule with AirPort Extreme

Posted on Jul 5, 2015 11:51 AM