So I have folders with 200 .doc files in them. I know they were created about 6 years ago. But the finder lists the added date and creation date as July 5, 2018. This is rather frustrating. Is there a way to sort the files or at least the files with there true creation date? Is this date stored anywhere?
Mac Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)
Dock : Launchpad : Other : Script Editor.
Copy/paste the following content into the Script Editor. Click the hammer icon, then click the Run button. It will let you select a Word .doc or .docx file, and then will report the created and modified date/time stamp from the selected file in a dialog box. Finder is not involved in extracting the created and modified dates from the file. This result willl be the truth.
property msg : "Select Word document"
-- allow Word .doc/.docx for selection
property word_file : {"com.microsoft.word.doc", "org.openxmlformats.wordprocessingml.document"}
property dloc : (path to desktop)
set this_doc to POSIX path of (choose filewith promptmsgof typeword_filedefault locationdloc without invisibles, multiple selections allowed and showing package contents)
display dialog (do shell script "stat -t '%FT%X' -f 'Created: %SB%nModified: %Sm%n' " & this_doc) as text
return
Dock : Launchpad : Other : Script Editor.
Copy/paste the following content into the Script Editor. Click the hammer icon, then click the Run button. It will let you select a Word .doc or .docx file, and then will report the created and modified date/time stamp from the selected file in a dialog box. Finder is not involved in extracting the created and modified dates from the file. This result willl be the truth.
property msg : "Select Word document"
-- allow Word .doc/.docx for selection
property word_file : {"com.microsoft.word.doc", "org.openxmlformats.wordprocessingml.document"}
property dloc : (path to desktop)
set this_doc to POSIX path of (choose filewith promptmsgof typeword_filedefault locationdloc without invisibles, multiple selections allowed and showing package contents)
display dialog (do shell script "stat -t '%FT%X' -f 'Created: %SB%nModified: %Sm%n' " & this_doc) as text
return
See what Get Info shows (command - I).
Did you copy the file from another location recently?
Lets see. In the master folder there are 11 subfolders with maybe 200 files in each. I'm sure I've copied a file from somewhere into one of these sub folders. But for most the answer is no. Take a look.
These documents were added over a period of time similar to date created. But the date added are all jul 5 2018.
I don't know what get info shows but it is wrong. How could a file created 6 years ago have a date added date of 2018?
Find real creation date of a file
