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Old December 16th 17, 05:40 AM posted to comp.sys.mac.system,alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.mac.apps
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Default Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file?

In article , Mayayana
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| As soon as you make a copy, that copy gets the
| creation time for when it was created.
|
| not on all operating systems.

You're saying it's otherwise on Macs?


for copies done via finder (explorer equivalent), create time is
preserved.

for copies done via the unix shell, it depends. historically, unix
doesn't track create time, but macos does, so what happens via the
shell will vary depending on the command used and its options.

more he
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...le-creation-da
te-in-linux/5929466#5929466

here's a good explanation of the difference:
https://groups.google.com/forum/mess...mac.system/ARr
LvqBbZn4/e5Y5Lbf3koQJ
The Windows philosophy toward creation times is filesystem-centric;
the timestamp reflects the time when the file entry was created on
that volume. For this reason, when you copy the file to a different
volume, the copy gets a new creation timestamp -- one that might even
be newer than the file modification time.

The Mac philosophy toward creation times is document-oriented; the
timestamp indicates when the document (the contents of the file) was
first saved.

Have
you actually looked?


yep.

If a couple of people besides
you confirm it then I'll assume it's true.


at least one already has.

Far be it from me to question the edicts of
Lord Jobs. If he says all files were created in
1984 by Himself then that, of course, would be
the law in AppleLand.


there you go with your anti-apple crap.

I only know Windows.


yep. that's all you know.

maybe one day you'll consider learning something new.

maybe also one day you'll realize that what lord gates declared isn't
the *only* way things should work and that there are valid reasons for
doing it another way.
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