On Jun 13, 2011, at 09:06, Emmanuel LEVY wrote: > I don't even know how you set a modification date... ______________________________________________________________________ Hey Emmanuel, Mark's script works nicely, but it is also easily done with vanilla Applescript: tell application "Finder" try set sel to (selection as alias list)'s first item set modification date of sel to (current date) on error errMsg number errNum set sep to "==============================" set e to sep & return & "Error: " & errMsg & return & sep & return ¬ & "Error Number: " & errNum & return & sep beep display dialog e end try end tell -- Best Regards, Chris