Changing an incorrect creation date

Is there some kind of software or hack that will allow me to change the creation date on a document file? My digital camera occasionally "forgets" the date and reverts to "April 15, 2015", which, of course, hasn't even happened yet. I'd like the creation dates to be correct, so that my files will sort properly under "view by date" in Finder, etc. Any advice?

Hi, C1ndyluhu. In addition to Niel's suggestion, you may want to check your camera's manual for information about when and why the camera's clock date and time are automatically reset to their default values. It may happen each time you remove the camera's battery, or leave it discharged for a while, or something of that sort. If you know when you need to reset the camera's clock, then you'll be able to avoid having the camera misdate your pictures.

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Hi folks, this is a problem I have been trying to resolve for a very long time.
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Thank you for the suggestion TD. But the Batch doesn't help in this case because so many of the photos were created on different days. I would still have to manually go into each of the creation dates and change them back to the original.
That's just not feasible for 1500 files. iPhoto shouldn't be stripping the files of the creation dates at import to begin with. I'm hoping to find a way to get the import process to work properly for these files. The weird thing is that iPhoto doesn't seem to do this to files create on a more typical point and shoot camera,
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Apparently, when the "B-style" photos were imported into iPhoto, the app automatically rotated them so that they are viewed correctly (without having to turn your head sideways). This is a very nice feature, but the result is that the file date changes.
Correct. Your camera has an Auto-Rotate feature. However, the camera does not actually rotate any pixels in the file, but instead flags it with an instruction: "Display me this way". This is a tag in the Exif metadata. When you import a file with this tag iPhoto creates a modified version. It does this because most of the apps that integrate with it - email clients, word processors etc - simply don't understand this Exif tag. So if you used the shot in a word processing doc, uploaded it to many Web site etc, the shot would come out sideways.
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How can I change the file creation date through Labview 2012?

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You can use .NET functions on Windows to get/set the CreationTime, LastWriteTime and LastAccessTime.
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Hello Margaret,
How are you downloading the pictures?
If you plug your camera to the computer and use the camera's software or iPhoto, it would add the created date to your picture. I you use a card reader, I'm afraid it would not, unless you use iPhoto with the card reader.
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Is any one good with writing AppleScript? I've looked in the Help menu and I don't understand it.
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set pathErr to getFiles()
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activate
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activate
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end tell
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end if
on getFiles()
script o
                    property tFiles : {}
end script
set o's tFiles to choose file with multiple selections allowed without invisibles
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          set tError to ""
set tc to count o's tFiles
repeat with i from 1 to tc
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if (i mod 250) = 0 or i = tc then -- 250 files sent to the shell to not exceed the limit of characters.
set r to my setCreationDateToModDate(t)
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end repeat
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from Foundation import NSFileManager
df = NSFileManager.defaultManager()
nbr=len(sys.argv)
for i in range( 1, nbr ):
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