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I have image files that were created on a device that had the wrong date set. It created a whole set of images in 2024 that are labeled as being created in 2025. This is now a problem, tracking these files.
How can I just change the date of those files to show a year of 2024?
I think I bumbled onto something last year, but did not change them all and now I can't remember how to change the date.
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 14.5
With Xcode (or the command-line tools) installed:
xcode-select --install
The following will set the creation date:
SetFile -d "01/01/2025 00:00:00" /path/to/a/file /path/to/another/file
Details on SetFile are available.
For the more important metadata embedded within images (using file system metadata here is best avoided):
Somehow I thought I found something simpler.
I may have to try that, thanks.
How do I change a file creation date?