setting file created date in livecode from script

[Keith Martin]

Hi Stephen,

I made a little tool (in LiveCode, natch) for doing this using touch. 
It's here: 
http://panoramaphotographer.com/software/likeaversion/index.html and 
there's a link near the bottom of the page to download the LiveCode 
stack.

k


On 14 Apr 2019, at 22:52, Stephen Barncard via use-livecode wrote:

> answering my own question: TOUCH
> looks like what I want... gotta love BSD Unix...
>
> NAME
>
>      touch -- change file access and modification times
>
>
> SYNOPSIS
>
>      touch [-A [-][[hh]mm]SS] [-acfhm] [-r file] [-t 
> [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.SS]]
>
>            file ...
>
>
> DESCRIPTION
>
>      The touch utility sets the modification and access times of 
> files.  If
>
>      any file does not exist, it is created with default permissions.
>
>
>      By default, touch changes both modification and access times.  
> The -a
> and
>
>      -m flags may be used to select the access time or the 
> modification time
>
>      individually.  Selecting both is equivalent to the default.  By
> default,
>
>      the timestamps are set to the current time.  The -t flag 
> explicitly
> spec-
>
>      ifies a different time, and the -r flag specifies to set the 
> times
> those
>
>      of the specified file.  The -A flag adjusts the values by a 
> specified
>
>      amount.
> .....
>
> full definition can be had by typing MAN TOUCH
>
>
>
>
> I hope others can use this knowledge..sorry to raise the alarm.
>
>
> I'm off to write a handler, which I'll post later if anyone is 
> interested
>
>
> Now I've got to find those EXIF routines, they're around somewhere....
>
>
> thanks , self
>
>
> this is the kind of stuff that LC is so good for...
> --
> Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA -
> mixstream.org
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 2:36 PM Stephen Barncard 
> <stephen at barncard.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Gang,
>>
>> I thought file date change had been a part of livecode for years, but 
>> I
>> can't find anything in the docs about setting the created or modified 
>> dates
>> in files.
>> I need to do this on the Mac desktop.
>>
>> Why? because several years ago $@$#$@#$@'ing  dropbox, without my
>> permission, started changing not only filenames but DATES in a huge 
>> swath
>> of precious photos in  a particularly dishonest way -- they wanted my 
>> free
>> account to fill up quickly so I'd have to "upgrade".
>> I know the EXIF tags still exist inside each file, but all the file 
>> dates
>> had been changed to the date of copying.
>> Dropbox has been increasingly piggish lately - not allowing more than 
>> 3
>> machines on the free account.
>> It's a mess.  This does not endear me to these greedy people.
>>
>> I have to write a custom handler to deal with this - there's no app 
>> that
>> can do this - I don't think.
>>
>> perhaps there's something I can call from the shell - I'd be good 
>> with
>> that.
>>
>> Anyone have an idea? Thanks in advance.
>>
>> sqb
>> --
>> Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA -
>> mixstream.org
>>
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