File change its creation date

Mac OS 9 why my file change its creation date while copying now I have creation date year of 2040

Hi, mietko -
Not sure what might be causing that date change. As far as I know, the creation and mod dates are not in any resource fork for a file, so should be retained accurately when copied from one platform to any other.
If you altered the file after copying it (sometimes just by opening and closing it), then a new mod date matching the date on the server could easily have been set.
If you need to have the file have the correct creation date, you can probably use a utility such as FileBuddy to fix it.
However, I don't know what might be causing the problem. Is this happening to only one particular file? ...or does it affect any file you copy in the same manner?

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Did you get help ? Or do you have a work around ? I have about 20.000 Pictures and countless videos to organize myself.
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Here's a screen shot I just made of one of the files.
Look at this one ! This one is really interesting:
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Okay, I tried changing the creation date with SetFile, but it kept giving me an error:
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<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
font-weight: normal;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #E6E6EE;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the AppleScript Editor">
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Hi Keith,
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Relocating files based on creation date

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font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
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font-weight: normal;
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padding: 5px;
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