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An AppleScript to sync creation and modification dates
Authored by: pornstorm on Thu, Dec 6 2007 at 9:01PM PST

why doesn't the reverse of this work? i want to replace the creation date with the modification date. it returns an error. help! help!

An AppleScript to sync creation and modification dates
Authored by: saywake on Tue, Dec 11 2007 at 3:58PM PST

According to the Finder applescript dictionary, the creation date is read only (r/o). Take a look at jhead, which is command line utility with lots of promise. you can use this with applescript by using 'do shell script'.