Re: setting file created date in livecode from script

Thank you James, Richard, Alex, and Bob for your replies. As it turns out, James' suggestion was a good one and version 6 of "A Better Finder Rename" does indeed to appear to do what I want. In connection with Public Space's companion folder utility, I can do it all

Re: setting file created date in livecode from script

Bob Sneidar wrote: > And as always my disclaimer for NextCloud: Once you begin syncing your > local files to a NextCloud server, the server BECOMES THE MASTER! > Unsyncing a particular subfolder in the future has the particularly > henious effect of DELETING YOUR LOCAL FOLDER! Turning sync back

Re: setting file created date in livecode from script

And as always my disclaimer for NextCloud: Once you begin syncing your local files to a NextCloud server, the server BECOMES THE MASTER! Unsyncing a particular subfolder in the future has the particularly henious effect of DELETING YOUR LOCAL FOLDER! Turning sync back on for that folder will

Re: setting file created date in livecode from script

Thank you James - I have licensed all the 'Better' Apps for over 10 years but I didn't think they were capable of 1. Reading the EXIF date 2. AND setting the Created Date and time of the file with formatted information gained from the EXIF info 3. AND renaming the filename of that file with

Re: setting file created date in livecode from script

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

Re: setting file created date in livecode from script

If you are looking for an existing app the folks at publicspace have what I think you need http://www.publicspace.net/ABetterFinderAttributes/index.html Although I haven’t had a need for this particular app I have used a companion app (A BetterFinder Renamer) for years and it has worked

Re: setting file created date in livecode from script

Thanks Richard, I'll check out your suggestion. -- Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA - mixstream.org On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 10:18 PM Stephen Barncard wrote: > the altering was the filename change - some kind of unique number, and > the created dates were changed as well - for no reason.

Re: setting file created date in livecode from script

the altering was the filename change - some kind of unique number, and the created dates were changed as well - for no reason. -- Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA - mixstream.org On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 10:15 PM Stephen Barncard wrote: > "1. How does changing the date affect their space

Re: setting file created date in livecode from script

"1. How does changing the date affect their space quota?" The unwanted photo file uploads affected MY space quota on the free account, they fill it up, and then they tell you you are near the 'limit' and must buy more space. When I got my files back, they were altered. It's just dishonest and

Re: setting file created date in livecode from script

Stephen Barncard wrote: > 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

Re: setting file created date in livecode from script

On 14/04/2019 22:36, Stephen Barncard via use-livecode wrote: I have to write a custom handler to deal with this - there's no app that can do this - I don't think. I know you found the way to write the custom handler, using 'shell + touch'. But if you want to just use an existing app,

Re: setting file created date in livecode from script

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

setting file created date in livecode from script

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