[X4U] Mac OS X Routine Maintenance

[Jan Melichar]

On 9 Jul 2006, at 09:39, Randy B.Singer wrote:

> Jan Melichar said:
>
>> Not sure if this has much to do with maintenance but have you any
>> idea why some files 'loose' their 'creation date' and all files lose
>> it when spending any time on iDisk - local or remote and, does it
>> matter other then being very unhelpful when, for example,  performing
>> some searches.
>
>
> I don't subscribe to .Mac, so I can't tell you about iDisk.
>
> I do know that when files are transferred via the Internet, and they
> aren't compressed for the journey, it isn't uncommon for them to lose
> their metadata.
>
> Also, many common backup programs fail to backup files' metadata.

Thanks. So does that mean that the loss of this data does not  
otherwise effect the integrity of the file.

Jan