Is there a way one can maintain the original date of creation of either a document or photo?
Any time I want to refer back to a particular document the original date is changed to the date of reference. To me this is senseless. Is there a way to override this?
iPad Air, iOS 12
Pages will not change the creation date of a Pages document on the local Mac unless one chooses to duplicate the document using Pages File menu : Duplicate command, in which case, the Finder views it as a new document name and requests the operating system to stamp it with the current date/time. For this scenario, there is no override as the UNIX operating system is stamping a new file.
Copying/moving a file around on the same drive does not change the creation/modification date stamp. That includes bringing a file from iCloud Drive to the local drive.
Pages will not change the creation date of a Pages document on the local Mac unless one chooses to duplicate the document using Pages File menu : Duplicate command, in which case, the Finder views it as a new document name and requests the operating system to stamp it with the current date/time. For this scenario, there is no override as the UNIX operating system is stamping a new file.
Copying/moving a file around on the same drive does not change the creation/modification date stamp. That includes bringing a file from iCloud Drive to the local drive.
Pages overwriting original date of creation
