Show Creation Date

When I do a search the results are displayed by name or date order (that seems to be the only available options), but the date used is the modification date - at least, that's what shows in the window I have. How do I get it to show and sort by the creation date?
What happens now is that I search, go to View options, set view by date, but then if I open a file to look at it, then close it without making any changes, it now lists it as modified today. I've got to be missing something simple in changing this but I can't work it out.
Thanks for your help in getting the creation date shown and used as the sort field.
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.9)

When performing the search (⌘ F) switch to List View (⌘ 2). Open the View Options (⌘ J) and check the box for Date Created. (While you're there, make sure All Windows is selected) You can then sort by that date, just as you would normally, by clicking on the column heading.

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//ImageCatalog.jsx
//An InDesign C4 JavaScript
@@@BUILDINFO@@@ "ImageCatalog.jsx" 2.0.0 5-December-2007
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//Each file can be labeled with the file name, and the labels are placed on
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main();
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function myWinOSFileFilter(myFolder){
var myFiles = new Array;
var myFilteredFiles = new Array;
for(myExtensionCounter = 0; myExtensionCounter < myExtensions.length; myExtensionCounter++){
myExtension = myExtensions[myExtensionCounter];
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if(myFiles.length != 0){
   for(var myFileCounter = 0; myFileCounter < myFiles.length; myFileCounter++){
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return myFilteredFiles;
function myMacOSFileFilter(myFolder){
var myFilteredFiles = myFolder.getFiles(myFileFilter);
return myFilteredFiles;
//Mac OS version of file filter
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//and/or file extensions are sometimes hidden by the Finder.
function myFileFilter(myFile){
var myFileType = myFile.type;
switch (myFileType){
case "JPEG":
case "EPSF":
case "PICT":
case "TIFF":
case "8BPS":
case "GIFf":
case "PDF ":
   return true;
   break;
default:
for(var myCounter = 0; myCounter<myExtensions.length; myCounter++){
   var myExtension = myExtensions[myCounter];
   if(myFile.name.indexOf(myExtension)>-1){
    return true;
    break;
return false;
function myDisplayDialog(myFiles, myFolder){
var myLabelWidth = 112;
var myStyleNames = myGetParagraphStyleNames(app);
var myLayerNames = ["Layer 1", "Labels"];
var myDialog = app.dialogs.add({name:"Image Catalog"});
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with(dialogRows.add()){
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with(borderPanels.add()){
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     staticTexts.add({staticLabel:"Source Folder:", minWidth:myLabelWidth});
     staticTexts.add({staticLabel:myFolder.path + "/" + myFolder.name});
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     staticTexts.add({staticLabel:myFiles.length + ""});
with(dialogRows.add()){
    staticTexts.add({staticLabel:"Options:"});
with(borderPanels.add()){
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     staticTexts.add({staticLabel:"Number of Columns:", minWidth:myLabelWidth});
     var myNumberOfColumnsField = integerEditboxes.add({editValue:3});
    with(dialogRows.add()){
     staticTexts.add({staticLabel:"Horizontal Offset:", minWidth:myLabelWidth});
     var myHorizontalOffsetField = measurementEditboxes.add({editValue:12, editUnits:MeasurementUnits.points});
    with(dialogRows.add()){
     staticTexts.add({staticLabel:"Vertical Offset:", minWidth:myLabelWidth});
     var myVerticalOffsetField = measurementEditboxes.add({editValue:24, editUnits:MeasurementUnits.points});
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      var myFitCenterContentCheckbox = checkboxControls.add({staticLabel:"Center Content", checkedState:true});
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var myAddLabelStyle = true;
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var myRightMargin = myMarginPreferences.right;
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if(myFitFrameToContent){
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for (var myCounter = myDocument.rectangles.length-1; myCounter >= 0;myCounter--){
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var myLabelStyle = myDocument.paragraphStyles.item(myLabelStyleName);
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Example:
I attach my camera and it shows up as disk image named "NIKON D70" and the images are contained in subfolders "DCIM/100NCD70" (or actually in DCIM/*). I then want all images in these folders copied to my home directory in a subdirectory called something like "Pictures/D70/2007/20070605" where the year folder name and the date folder name should be according to current image creation date (which of course can be different for each image).
I have created a simple automation script that copies images from my camera to a folder named according to current date, but that's not good enough.
Anybody having any hints or ideas of how I can accomplish this?
Regards
Anders
Mac Pro, 2x2.66GHz, 5GB, ATI X1900 XT Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Open the AppleScript Editor in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder and run:
tell application "Finder"
repeat with this_file in (get files of window 1)
set the_date to creation date of this_file
set folder_name to ((year of the_date as string) & "-" & day of the_date & "-" & month of the_date)
try
make new folder in window 1 with properties {name:folder_name}
end try
move this_file to folder folder_name
end repeat
end tell
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Creation date displayed oddly in Finder

In a Get Info window, my creation dates show correctly. In a Finder window, dates are not shown correctly, so that 2011-1-22 appears as 111/22/ followed by the time. Any idea why the / between year and month is missing?

Another go at explaining it:
There are two kinds of metadata involved when you consider jpeg or other image file.
One is the file data. This is what the Finder shows. This tells you nothing about the contents of the file, just the File itself.
The problem with File metadata is that it can easily change as the file is moved from place to place or exported, e-mailed, uploaded etc.
Photographs have also got both Exif and IPTC metadata. The date and time that your camera snapped the Photograph is recorded in the Exif metadata. Regardless if what the file date says, this is the actual time recorded by the camera.
Photo applications like iPhoto, Aperture, Lightroom, Picasa, Photoshop etc get their date and time from the Exif metadata.
When you export from iPhoto to the Finder new file is created containing your Photo (and its Exif). The File date is - quite accurately - reported as the date of Export. However, the Photo Date doesn't change.
The problem is that the Finder doesn't work with Exif.
So, your photo has the correct date, and so does the file, but they are different things. To sort on the Photo date you'll need to use a photo app.

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