Setting last modified date of a file from within Rev

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Sat Sep 15 14:58:36 EDT 2007


Eric Chatonet wrote:
> Le 14 sept. 07 à 20:57, Richard Gaskin a écrit :
> 
>> Eric wrote:
>> > I'm going to reformulate my question more precisely:
>> > I have a Rev exe on the user's machine with many other files.
>> > I want to be able to write some data to one of these files (actually
>> > a Rev stack but it does not matter) and save it.
>> > But I don't want the modification date to be changed (on the  
>> desktop,
>> > in the file 'Properties' window, etc.) .
>>
>> I wonder if there may be a very different way to solve this problem.
>>
>> What is the user benefit you're trying to achieve with this change?
>>
> Actually it's a security issue:
> I just would like when installing the software to set a custom  
> property in a stack, save it and still have this file with the same  
> modification date as all others files: move along, there's nothing to  
> see ;-)

If it happens during install, couldn't you also save a few other files 
to bring the date forward?  If you did, it would make the one you're 
actually changing no longer stand out.

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