ALYVEGA84

Q: dates on photos or video files spontaneously changed

I have an iMac from 2008 running OS X Version 10.6.8.

 

I noticed today that some video files in the finder window have altered dates. I watched these videos less than 3 months ago and the dates were correct. I created them with a Flip cam back in 2013. It would be nice to have the correct date on them. Now all the files are dated December 2018 to November 2020.

 

I tried this fix:

If the wrong date or time is displayed in some apps on your Mac - Apple Support

 

but it was no help. For one thing it suggests I quit the program displaying the wrong dates. I had not even opened QuickTime so how was I supposed to quit it and restart. Does it mean quit the Finder? Can you even do that? I tried restarting the computer. Nothing.

 

This is not the first time this has happened. Mostly in iPhoto.

 

Help, please

 

Best, Alyson

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Mar 15, 2016 10:34 AM