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 :

I have 4 macs :

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.

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

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. The date in the camera is also correct at the current date, in fact the jpegs come from 11 different cameras.

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.

Ollie

[thefalloftroy]

have you tried importing them all to iPhoto and then saving them to your disk? that could get the date to work and its preety fast, on the other hand, you could try Ctrl+Click the files with 1904 and making copies of them, that culd get the date right, to the date the copy was made

[chunkygrooves]

thanks for the suggestion, but imagine doing that import or copy with 75 thousand large jpegs every months, not really a workable solution, what i would like is to find a cure for this issue rather than a time consuming workaround. thanks for trying though, appriciated.

anyone else got any ideas???

cheers

Ollie

[thefalloftroy]

save everything you have, and then... Reinstall OS X on your computer.