> On Jun 10, 2016, at 6:21 AM, Greg Reyna <greyn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is there a way to learn the creation date of an unsaved, "untitled text" file?
Hello Greg. I read your question with curiosity, being as I had never considered this before. In fact, at first I thought it might be a joke, until I actually opened the message in Mail.app and read the entire thing. My personal assumption would be that until a BBEdit text doc -- or any file for that matter -- is actually saved to the hard drive, it cannot have a creation date, because it is only being stored in memory. Led by my curiosity, I created a brand new text doc, typed some nonsense in it, and then looked at the status bar that is located at the bottom of its window. Sure enough, it simply says "(never saved)", whereas with a saved document, it would actually show when it was last saved. Next, I looked under BBEdit's various menus. The only thing there is the "Get Info" option under the "View" menu, which you can obviously do with a "command-i" as well. But, as you may have already determined yourself, opening the Get Info window does not reveal the creation date, perhaps confirming that until a file is actually saved to your hard drive, it cannot have a creation date. Perhaps someone -- Rich? Patrick? -- with more experience than I can offer a more satisfying response. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com.
