Strange problem - my jpegs have the date of 1904??

[chunkygrooves]

Hi Everyone

My first posting as a new member here, great to have found this forum.

help please :

In my work ( from home studio ) I have to download 75000 Jpegs a month to specific folders on 1 & 2TB external drives.

I use a card reader and copy and paste the files from the reader to the external drives, when I do this on my main machine, the mac pro 8 core running leopard all is fine.

But if I do the same on both mac book pro or Imac G5 20 inch (both running tiger) the created date on all the jpegs come out as Jan 1st 1904.

My 17 inch imac (running tiger) also copies files with the correct date!

The memory cards I use are formatted in Camera each time they are used.

Has anyone heard of this before? All OS's are up to date with the latest updates and all system dates on the clock are correct on all 4 machines.

The correct created date is very important to me as I have to sort and store those 75000 jpegs by created date into folders of 1 date per day. this leaves me with only 2 out of 4 machines able to do this correctly.

Strangely if I use software to import the jpegs (aperture for example) all dates are correct. But this is not suitable for my use as it means a lot of time is consumed importing and then exporting 75000 files a month.

Can anyone shed some light on this??

thanks very much.

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[fangpyre]

It seems that your files' metadata is still intact.
You can confirm this by using mdls

No idea why this is happening though.

[chunkygrooves]

any ideas

come on mac experts

????

thx

[fangpyre]

Did you try mdls?
Is the metadata intact?

We need this info to know what the problem is.
You haven't replied to that.

[chunkygrooves]

Originally Posted by fangpyre

Did you try mdls?
Is the metadata intact?

We need this info to know what the problem is.
You haven't replied to that.

Hi thanks,, yes the metadata is definatley intact, remember the files are fine using the 8 core and leopard, also fine on 1 of my G5 imacs ( tiger). I can see the meta data in adobe bridge and aperture.

I have no idea what to do with that mdls - sorry - I know nothing about scripts, but appriciate your help with this

the problem shows itself
when using the mac book pro and a 20 inch G5 imac - both tiger

BTW - the files do this (1904) both if copied to the external drive or either one of the two machines (HDD's) that have the problem - so I suppose that rules out the file system of the external drive bring the issue???

the problem seems to be in Finder - the date shows 1904

thanks

Oliver

[chunkygrooves]

Originally Posted by chunkygrooves

Hi thanks,, yes the metadata is definatley intact, remember the files are fine using the 8 core and leopard, also fine on 1 of my G5 imacs ( tiger). I can see the meta data in adobe bridge and aperture.

I have no idea what to do with that mdls - sorry - I know nothing about scripts, but appriciate your help with this

the problem shows itself
when using the mac book pro and a 20 inch G5 imac - both tiger

BTW - the files do this (1904) both if copied to the external drive or either one of the two machines (HDD's) that have the problem - so I suppose that rules out the file system of the external drive bring the issue???

the problem seems to be in Finder - the date shows 1904

thanks

Oliver

BUMP

any ideas pleeeeese

[fangpyre]

I'm stumped, sorry.
I can't see why this would happen, nor can I find any reference to resolving it.
There are references to others that have pictures with corrupted data, but always with a comprehendible reason.