[X4U] Creation/Modified date of Mail attachments

[Charles Howse]

On Apr 1, 2009, at 10:13 PM, Mark Des Cotes wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a small problem and I don't know how to fix it. I've received  
> a bunch of MSWord files via e-mail (Mail Version 2.1.3 on OS 10.4.1)  
> I need to know their creation and last modified dates so that I can  
> put them in order, but when I save them to my computer and Get Info  
> it shows them both as being the time I saved the attachment. I tried  
> dragging them to a folder and got the same results. The files were  
> sent from a Windows machine. How can I figure out when they were  
> created and last modified?

Hi Mark,
I'm no expert at 'find', but I see in the man page that it will find  
by creation time, and/or modification time.  Maybe that will get you  
started.