I want to restore several files from Time Machine which have had their Creation dates accidently changed to a specific recent date (the files are OK, but I no longer have their original Creation dates intact).
To locate them in the Finder I go to the parent folder in question, press CMD-F (Find), choose to search within that specific folder and use the following search criteria:
[Kind] is [Any]
[Created date] is [exactly] [6/4/2015]
This presents all the files with that creation date, but I want to restore them from before they had their creation dates changed (i.e. before 6/4/2015). So what happens when I have the search result, then in the Time Machine window go back to the day before that date is that nothing is displayed any longer (because the creation date is different from the search criteria).
Also, since there are quite a few files to be restored, is there a way to have Time Machine/OSX restore them all back to where they were originally located? It would save me a great deal of time instead of having to manually put them in all their specific folder loations all over the hard drive.
To locate them in the Finder I go to the parent folder in question, press CMD-F (Find), choose to search within that specific folder and use the following search criteria:
[Kind] is [Any]
[Created date] is [exactly] [6/4/2015]
This presents all the files with that creation date, but I want to restore them from before they had their creation dates changed (i.e. before 6/4/2015). So what happens when I have the search result, then in the Time Machine window go back to the day before that date is that nothing is displayed any longer (because the creation date is different from the search criteria).
Also, since there are quite a few files to be restored, is there a way to have Time Machine/OSX restore them all back to where they were originally located? It would save me a great deal of time instead of having to manually put them in all their specific folder loations all over the hard drive.