IMovie modified date changes if only opened

Whenever I open an iMovie file only to view it, not make any changes, then close the file, the Finder changes the modified date and time to equal the "Last Opened" date and time. I have noticed this through several generations of iMovie so I assume that everyone experiences the same.
What I wish to know is if this will have an impact on the backup process. For example, I have a pair of external hard drives containing iMovie projects. One is the source and the second is the backup. Many of the files are quite large, some as large as 25 GB. I surely wouldn't want my backup software to attempt to backup a 25 GB file simply because I opened it.
Does anyone know why the Modified time and date should change simply by opening a file and if my backup concerns are real.

My iMovie program, too, changes the modified date to the last opened date even if I don't modify it. I suspect that that's the way the program is designed.
I don't know the answer to your backup concerns. Would depend on what preferences that you set for your backup software. Easiest way to find out would be to make a small iMovie project, save it, then reopen and resave, and see what your backup program does with it.
You may get more definitive responses from others on this forum.

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"Modified date" changing on messages for what seems to be no reason. Very strange.

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or reply to a message it will change the "modified date" for that message.
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Hi,
You mean that when you view the message, the modified date change to the
current date and time? Based on my research, Editing, replying, or copying an Outlook item can change the last modified date.
So as this issue, start Outlook in safe mode to check the issue:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/work-with-office-safe-modes-HP010354300.aspx
If the issue still occur in safe mode, then run Windows in clean boot mode - this will exclude 3rd-party services when starting Windows - for a period of time, and check if this behavior will
still occur.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135
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What makes an alias modified date change?

Anybody knows what can make an alias "modified" date change by itself?

Any modification of the file changes the Modified Date.

Modified Date changes to now by selecting (not opening) vmwarevm file

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VMware Fusion is currently not running, and it's disabled (an older version not compatible with Yosemite has not yet been upgraded) so I don't think Fusion is doing this....
I have VM files (.vmwarevm) that were not opened for months. I want to see which is which by viewing the date stamp in Finder. Clicking once shows the old date, then almost instantly it is changed to Now. Like this:
Created 2009-04-13, 1:23 PM
Modified Today, <now>
Last Opened Today, <now>
... but once changed those dates do not change again.
I found an un-clicked one and it did the same thing, with <now> as the time stamp on that one. Now I have files with slightly different "today" date stamps which is incorrect and not helpful to determine the age of these files.
It appears something (Preview?) is opening the file to access the content and generate a "recent screenshot" for the current state of the VM.
I found no other files [edit: no other file types] that behave this way.
I duplicated and renamed an odt file to .vmwarevm and it does not result in a Modified or Last Opened date change.
(one of the VMs also doesn't change so I suspect a bad file format).

Acrobat 9 makes PDF versions 4.0 and higher. You need a PDF version 5.0 to handle transparencies well. PDF version 4.0 doesn't handle transparency effects well at all.
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Documents "Modifed Date" changes just by opening?

We're seeing that Word, Excel & various other doc's change their "Date Modified" to today's date where they are ONLY opened...not modified.
All we're doing is opening and closing, no changes....
Is this a Micro$oft issue or can I change a preference somewhere??
many thanks

After seeing that the date-change problem seems to happen when you look at a document to which you have group access, but you aren't the owner of it, I just tried marking a similar document "read-only" using the Workgroup manager, then I went back to my desktop machine, opened it in Word, closed it again, responded 'no' to the dialog question about saving, and this time the date didn't change - and there was no MS Word error message..
I'm haven't tested what happens if you try to do the same in finder from a client machine -- of course, usng Work Group manager that way is not really a practical solution.
Also I'm going to see if the problem happens with a non MS Office application.

Finder "modified date" changes whenever I view a file

I prefer to list files by date in the finder windows.
Whenever I just open a file without modifying it, the Finder changes it's modified date to Today.
Is it possible to set the Finder to only display actual content modification dates rather than any activity with the file?
Thx,

i've got the same issue....a huge pain. one way to "look at files" without changing the date is to hit the space bar in finder when you're on the file. that will launch the quick look feature and you can see if that's the file you want to open. i know its not the best solution, but a small step. if you find a real way to fix this... let me know.

Modification Date changes when updating Open With?!?!

Forgive me if this is mentioned elsewhere. I have been searching these forums and not seen this problem.
If I do a 'Get Info' on a file in the Finder and change the application it opens with, the Modification Date changes to 'now'. Why in the world would this happen? This is not how 10.3.x worked, and certainly doesn't make any sense since I am not actually modifying the file. I am simply changing the OS's metadata about which app to use. This info isn't even stored in the file itself, as evidenced by burning such an document to a CD or moving it through a network server then opening it on a machine with different default apps for certain extensions.
Is this just another wacky step backwards in the world of the Apple OS X Finder, or am I missing a way to avoid this?
PowerMac G5 2.5DP Mac OS X (10.4.3)

This is not how 10.3.x worked, and certainly doesn't make any sense since I am not actually modifying the file.
Actually, I am using "Panther" now, and can confirm that changing the application to be used to open an individual file through "Get Info" does in fact change the modification date.
When the "Change all" button is used, the modification date of other files of that type won't be affected by this change since that modification is presumably made somewhere in the "Launch Services" database to set the "default" application to be used for that file type. Perhaps this is what you were thinking of.
However, for that first file (or any file changed individually), the file is in fact modified, and the "Open with" information is stored with the file, in its "resource fork". Usually, a 'usro' resource (specifying the application) and an 'icns' resource (for the app's custom icon for that file type) are added. You can try this yourself - drag any image from Safari.app to the "Desktop" and open the info window for that image - such images usually don't have a "resource fork". Make note of the file's size, then change the "Open with" application. You should immediately see an increase in the file's size (to account for the addition of the "resource fork") accompanied by an update of the file's modification date to reflect this modification.

Modified date changes in Word 2010 without saving.

Some files (made in Word 2k) I open and get asked if I want to update the links. I answer no. When closing the file the modified date is set to today. After turning off "update links" in the settings, I am not asked anything but still the modified
date is changed. This is a very undesired behavior. I would even consider it a
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The real issue is that it does not seem to be possible to stop Word from "updating" links to spreadsheets. While it does not actually update the link if the option to update automatic links on open is unchecked, after opening a document containing
a link to a spreadsheet and then attempting to close it without doing anything else, you will be asked if you want to save the changes to the document.
-- Hope this helps.
Doug Robbins - Word MVP,
dkr[atsymbol]mvps[dot]org
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"macropod" wrote in message news:[email protected]...
I am not interested in the internal bookkeeping of Word. If I open a file to just read it, Word should not mess with the saved date under any circumstances.
Hi victor,
I understand well enough that you don't have any date-type fields in your document. My suggestion for using the SAVEDATE field was simply to obtain from Word it's interpretation of when the file was last saved.
I fully agree that Word should not change the system 'modified' date if the file hasn't been changed. However, any such change is done by your system,
not by Word itself. So, what OS are you using? Is it part of a network? Does your Word file include any macros? If so, have you checked whether any of those macros include code to save the file?
-- Cheers
macropod MS MVP - Word
Doug Robbins - Word MVP dkr[atsymbol]mvps[dot]org

Modified date changes with get

Hello,
I am having trouble with synchronizing files with Dreamweaver CS6.
When I Get files from the server, the modified date for all the local files changes to the date/time that I did the Get, they do not reflect the modified date/time of those on the server, even though I have not modified any of them.
Then if I modify some of them (say 2 of 10 files) and go to synchronize, Dreamweaver will want to update all 10, not just the modified files.
I have tried checking and unchecking "Maitain synchronizatin information" but it doesn't seem to make any difference.
Sorry if this has been answered. I've been looking and have not found a solution.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance!

If you "Get" all your files from the server, you are essentially saving over the top of the files you have locally, which changes the file modification date as would be expected.
After that, all of your local files would then have the same, newer modificaiton date than anything on the server, so it would make sense that they all want to be uploaded again when you "Put" the entire site.
If you are using Get and Put each time to try to synchronize your files, stop. Use the Synchronize function (circular arrows on the right end of the Files Window toolbar) instead. That will check the server files without transferring them to your computer and saving over your local copy and allow you to upload only the files that have changed (after the first use of Synchronize that is).

Files transferred via Bonjour have 'Created' and 'Modified' dates changed

Okay, So I drag a file or folder of files to a name in the bonjour window to initiate a file transfer session between me and a co-worker. The transfer goes just fine; however, the "created", "modified", and "last opened" dates have all changed to the time when the file was transferred.
I have never noticed this before. Or, perhaps I just never had reason to view the time stamps.
I have tried transferring files to/from several different workstations running various system configurations. The results all seem the same. ALL the dates in the Get Info window are CHANGED!
What the heck?? Anyone?

If it is a transferred file that is new to that computer then it is likely the modified date will be changed.
I am not sure about the Created date in these circumstances
10:15 PM Friday; October 12, 2007

Get original file creation and modified date during upload - ONLY in explorerview ??

Hi,
SharePoint and me are having a difficult time again ;-)
I have the customer requirement to retain the original file's creation date and modified date.
Please do not start replying by just pasting links that you might find while searching for the keywords "retain creation date".
In a nutshell I found out that the original dates are only available in SharePoint if the
explorerview has been used. I always thought that the explorerview is a bad thing, but only here - the original creation date is stored in a property called "vti_ct". In the itemupdated eventreceiver you can get the
value and work with it.
Complete list of available properties
http://sbrickey.com/Tech/Blog/Post/Secrets_Revealed_SP_Event_Receivers_firing_multiple_times
Here I found the hint with the explorerview
http://answers.flyppdevportal.com/categories/sharepoint2010/sharepoint2010programming.aspx?ID=57bfd5f5-941f-4a89-919d-cdf7b0b801be
It is only available in the 2nd loop of the itemupdated event.
How the f*** can this happen??? The 2nd post states that when using the explorerview the file is being copied, while it is being re-created by using the SharePoint UI.
Has anyone a different approach for using the SharePoint UI?
I thought about different approaches for this issue. From my perspective it seems to be not solvable from the server-side. It seems only to be able to be set using a client application.
Example 1: spbulkdocumentimport
http://spbulkdocumentimport.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Features&referringTitle=Documentation
Example 2: implement a custom webservice
http://blog.orbitone.com/post/Preserve-created-and-modified-information-when-importing-a-document-in-SharePoint
How do you deal with this customer requirement?
Open for discussions
Sven

Hi,
Newbie to SharePoint, learn quite a lot from the links you provided.
“I found out that the original dates are only available in SharePoint if the explorerview has been used”, this would make sense because the original creation time is generated
by the file system in the local machine.
However, when a file is uploaded to SharePoint library, it will be stored as binary data in the database, as well as the newly created time. It means that it will be a “new” file
in the SharePoint site regardless of where it comes from.
Per my knowledge, the only way I can suggest is that you will need to create a client desktop application for the file uploading, which will be a more general way not only for
uploading a file, but also when we need to migrate files between different systems.
Thanks

Why wont the modify date, change the creation date?

I tried to use the "Adjust Content Created Date and Time" option but it doesn't change the creation date. So I have footage from 1992 stuck in a 2010 event folder. From things I read online it says this should change too. Am I reading this wrong? Will 1992 be stuck in 2010 forever, ha. Any help is great. I have also provided a screen shot of the Event from 1992 stuck in the 2010 Event Library.

Yeah the change date inside of FCPX doesn't seem to work as advertised, however you can change the date, so that FCPX sorts it properly. First delete the clip from FCPX, make sure you have the original somewhere though.
Open a terminal window and use the following command:
touch -t 199211280800.00 <path/filename>
Where the format is: (use leading zeros if necessary for date & time)
first four digits: year
next four: month and day
next four: time of day (in 24 hour format)
next 2: seconds as a decimal (this is optional, if you leave it off you will get 00 seconds)
The above example will change the file date to Nov. 8, 1992 08:00:00 AM
This will change the created, modified and last access dates of the clip/file.
Then reimport the clip and FCPX should recognize it properly.
I've done a dozen or so rips from VHS of old home movies and here is how I change the dates. Works every time.

Log data changes for only a table

Hi,
We know that to read log modification from a table we need to set the client on system parameter rec/client and also set flag in settings table from transaction SE13. But we do not want to set log for all tables in system only for one for table T001B.
Any suggestion?

Another option would be to only make changes to T001B and accept the defaults... no other logs will be written
You might also want to take a look into the "recclient" parameter (without "/") in the transport profile.
Anyway, I think you are concerned about a performance urban legend? Application data generally has it's own logs (CDHDR, etc) which are not related to this, and you mostly cannot turn it off anyway.
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