Using Core Services or OS, you can call FSGetCatalogInfo. Also, I recall things 
are different for stat under 64 bit, so you may want to make sure you're doing 
the right thing.

- Gary L. Wade (Sent from my iPhone)

On Jul 8, 2011, at 8:37 PM, "Rick C." <rickcort...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok I have double-checked and the icon isn't actually the issue since I call 
> iconForFile: after using stat.  With the original code I posted it just gives 
> me today's date.  I can go into Finder and as an example I found a file that 
> has a Last Opened date of 2009 and when I run stat it gives me today's date.  
> So it looks like stat is definitely not working...
> 
> Is there not an older Carbon method that was used for this before?  Is the 
> only way by using spotlight metadata?
> 
> On a related note...I just updated one of my drives to Lion GM and on that 
> drive I had a hard time to find a file with a different Last Opened date vs. 
> Last Modified.  Makes me think the Last Opened date in Finder is coming from 
> spotlight metadata could that be true?  If so then it looks like using the 
> spotlight metadata and just falling back on the modification date might be 
> the right way to go anyways???
> 
> 
> On Jul 8, 2011, at 5:38 PM, Chris Ridd wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 8 Jul 2011, at 09:54, Rick C. wrote:
>> 
>>> Sorry about that no I'm on Mac OS I was just sending the email from my 
>>> iPhone :-)
>>> 
>>> Ok I double-checked and I think I am getting the same results as you are.  
>>> But iconForFile does not modify the Last Opened date that shows in Finder.  
>>> So the question is how do I get that besides using the spotlight metadata?
>> 
>> Does the resource fork (where the icon lives) have a different set of 
>> timestamps from the data fork?
>> 
>> Chris
> 
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