Preserving added/updated dates?

[sintholo]

I’ve recently bought a new laptop and just synced my library, unsurprisingly all the dates of “added to library” and “last updated” are of the day I synced it. 

Is there any way to carry over the dates from my other/original library? I’m using a Mac for the record.

[crazygecko]

Unfortunately, those two fields (“Added to library” and “Last updated”) have been made inaccessible by the developers and cannot be manipulated by users. You might submit a request on the Product Suggestion section of the forum to make the info accessible to users and contact tech support to see if they may have an alternative:

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[hminney]

Here’s a way to copy inaccessible dates to Custom fields - warning it isn’t pretty

Copy from "added to library" to "access date"

A lot of years later but I thought I’d use AI to solve this. 6,415 records later and it worked smoothly. The date I accessed and read these records is the date I added them to my EndNote - it is kind-of obvious! This is “At Risk” and I’m going to explain the steps, not give the script, so you go through the steps. It’s probably different with different versions of EndNote: Read this first — the non-negotiable safety bits An EndNote library is two things that must stay paired: the .enl file…