Re: how to back date a file date?

Josef Lowder wrote:
> .
> How can I back-date a file to an older date that
> reflects its original creation date rather than its
> last modified date?
>
> I want to do this so the file dates will correctly identify
> the dates the photos were originally taken rather than the
> later dates that I modified, cropped, and resized them, etc.

jhead will do this. I wrote some wrapper scripts as part of picbook
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/picbook/) to do this kind of stuff.
they call jhead and/or touch.

http://picbook.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/picbook/picbook/FixImage.sh
might be useful to you.

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JT Morée
PC Xperience, Inc.

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