Mountain Lion is killing my Date Modified dates!

Bodega. said:

Has anybody noticed Mountain Lion changing their folders' Date Modified dates?

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iTunes 11.0.2
I had a look, and it turns out that many of my artist folders now have mod dates of 12:09 or 12:10 PM today.
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There doesn't seem to be any correlation to what I've played recently or how long I've had particular albums.
The change seems to be working its way through folders by Name; nearly everything from #,A to M.
At least the mod dates on individual songs are still OK.
I'm not even signed in to iTunes store, much less match/cloud.
Something odd is going on.

Just checked another Mac w a big iTunes Library, iTunes 11.0.1, that's been played a lot recently. There's no sign of artist folder's mod dates changing.

Problem might be related to recent (Feb 19) 11.0.1->11.0.2 update.

I don't think this is a weird behaviour. I would presume that something has indeed modified those files for some reason.

However, if you're using iTunes, there shouldn't be a need to navigate through the files in the Finder. It may be that manipulating these files in the Finder has caused the modification date to change. You can display the Modification date in iTunes.

A quick check through my iTunes files shows the mod dates to be as expected -- some dating back to 2003. I'm on 11.02.

Date Modified changing in OSX 10.9 Mavericks

Has anybody noticed Mountain Lion changing their folders' Date Modified dates?

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I recently started having the save issue in OSX 10.9 Mavericks. Date Modified is changing for dozens of the "Artist" folders located in my 'Amazon MP3' folder. This folder was created originally by the Amazon MP3 download app and is located on the internal drive of my Mac Mini.

I am also experiencing the same issue with music/video file folders on external drives. Ironically different file folders have date changes when comparing backup drives.