Modifying the "Date Modified" date?? Possible?

[Khryz]

Tried it .. same result - no file or directory.

Really appreciate the help BTW .. but I am clueless when it comes to this stuff.

Edit: Got it to work! Someone else helped me and gave me this explanation. Just tried it and it worked:

Yeah, so the issue looks like it was with the whitespace in the filenames. The Terminal interprets whitespace as the end of the command, if there's whitespace in a filename you have to "escape" the character with a backslash.

So, here's what I did to set the date:
touch -t 3001311234 /Users/XXXX/Downloads/Drawers/\ Movies\ .app

Note the backslashes before the space before the "M" in Movies, and before the space before ".app"

I did this, replaced with my own personal folder name (instead of XXXX) and it worked. I didn't drag anything into Terminal, just typed it in.

 

[LPZ]

Tried it .. same result - no file or directory.

Really appreciate the help BTW .. but I am clueless when it comes to this stuff.

Edit: Got it to work! Someone else helped me and gave me this explanation. Just tried it and it worked:



I did this, replaced with my own personal folder name (instead of XXXX) and it worked. I didn't drag anything into Terminal, just typed it in.

OK, good. I was going to suggest just typing in the path directly---in my next post. Maybe your version of Terminal doesn't automatically escape the spaces when you drop a file into its window. My version (using 10.6.4) does.

 

[RaceTripper]

Like I said earlier...spaces in paths was the culprit.

I definitely prefer bash's file completion to dragging things from Finder into the Terminal (even though I use it sometimes). The former is just more reliable.