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I've copied my video folder content from my windows installation to my Osx videos folder, but most of the content is greyed out and inaccessible from finder , i can open them trough muCommander though without any problem, an suggestions on how to fix the problem ?

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just tried and it didnt help , but ... i've discovered that all the grayed out files and folders have date modified set to  : 24 Jan 1984 08:00 :D any way of batch changing  date Modified ?

 

UPDATE: It was in fact the reason, the date rendered files and folder inaccessible , here's the way of batch changing the creation and modification date : http://blog.grapii.com/2010/07/change-a-files-creationmodified-date-on-mac-os-x/ some files wasn't updated in the process though and only way to fix it for me was to duplicate it and delete the original.

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The touch command as described in link http://blog.grapii.com/2010/07/change-a-files-creationmodified-date-on-mac-os-x/ doesn't set the correct date.

 

You can go to the appstore and download File Mod which offers a gui interface for setting this date. This sets you back for a couple of dollars. Or you can use the commandline SetFile tool that is included in the commandline tools of Xcode.

 

Set to date in a terminal using: SetFile -d (todays date) foldername

 

SetFile -d 01/01/2014 fufolder does the trick for me.

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