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New to this....I've searched for ages and can't find anything on it! When I move files using Hazel, it all works great, when I move them to my NAS it seems to reset the created date of images/videos to today. It doesn't do this in other locations, just the NAS.

Any helpful theories as to what I can do to work around this? I'm trying to sort into folders and rename based on date, and I'd like to keep the capture date accurate....

Moving across filesystems will result in a new created date. Try using the capture date metadata instead. Hazel provides a version of this called "Date Taken (Hazel)" if you select "Other..." in the attribute popup.

At least I know it's not a new issue just happening to me! Does date taken work for video? It was putting my videos into an odd folder! Thanks for getting back on this - really appreciate it

This solution works great for photos, but not for videos

Hazel doesn't really provide that for videos but I'll look into it as a possibility in the future.

I have the same Problem, the real creation Date was written in the metadata inside my pdf-Files.
The creation Date inside the finder-viewer was diferent and not the real creation Date from my pdf-Files.

How to use the creation date from the metadata of a pdf file?
how should the rule look like this?

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if all of the following conditions are met
Kind is PDF
"???" is in the last 1 month

Do the following to the matched file or folder:
Move to folder "xyz"

Check the other date attributes available and see if any of those match the date you are looking for.