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From: aslakson@cs.umn.edu (Brian Aslakson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Want name of date setting utility
Keywords: utility date BIFF mac
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Date: 29 Aug 90 17:55:47 GMT
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brian%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Brian Feinberg) writes:
>aslakson@cs.umn.edu (Brian Aslakson) writes:

>>I'm looking for the name of a utility that'll allow me to set the
>>dates on files, in other words, the date you see when you view by
>>name.  This is the date that a backup program would use?  

>If you have ResEdit, that will do the trick nicely. I had some files
>with a bogus creation and modify date that were as a result ALWAYS backed
>up when I did an incremental backup, and ResEdit lets you change all of these.

Someone emailed me with the same suggestion, which is fine, except...  can
I use it to get all 6.5 Megs worth of future dated files back to the present?
I back up (currently) about 90 Megs worth of files, on 3 volumes, and there
are about 6.5 Megs worth total of files that think they were created in 2040.
Huh.  I understand why 2040, but I want a utility that'll change all dates
to the present (Just before the next Level 0, natch), and let me do similar
* and -r type things.  (* meaning all files or a match of certain criteria, and
-r means recursive to subdirectories.)  I know MS-DOS, and there are utilities
to change this info, and I'm sure that the Mac has such utilities....so:
Help me!  (I've fallen and I can't get up)

Brian
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