<UTIL>Redate whole dir-trees folders to youngest file

[Usher]

2tbeu

There's a problem in Windows XP, when dealing with any folder containing index.dat file. Using setfolderdate plugin for such folders always ends with error message like below:

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C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\index.dat
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Failed to get last write time.

As index.dat files are used by Internet Explorer, it's possible that the same error message will show in Windows Vista and Windows 7 using IE8. IE11 in Windows 7 and newer systems doesn't use those files and there's no such a problem with setfolderdate.

[mikedepetris]

2tbeu

There's a problem in Windows XP, when dealing with any folder containing index.dat file. Using setfolderdate plugin for such folders always ends with error message like below:

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C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\index.dat
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Failed to get last write time.

As index.dat files are used by Internet Explorer, it's possible that the same error message will show in Windows Vista and Windows 7 using IE8. IE11 in Windows 7 and newer systems doesn't use those files and there's no such a problem with setfolderdate.

Even when you run TC as Administrator?

[tbeu]

2tbeu

There's a problem in Windows XP, when dealing with any folder containing index.dat file. Using setfolderdate plugin for such folders always ends with error message like below:

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C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\index.dat
---------------------------
Failed to get last write time.

As index.dat files are used by Internet Explorer, it's possible that the same error message will show in Windows Vista and Windows 7 using IE8. IE11 in Windows 7 and newer systems doesn't use those files and there's no such a problem with setfolderdate.

I already try to retrieve the last write time using two different API calls, see https://gitlab.com/tbeu/wcx_setfolderdate/blob/e09dad025666cb4ea7a1872efdf571051c73e596/src/wcx_setfolderdate.cpp#L59-75. I have no chance to reproduce and also no good idea what I could improve here.

[Usher]

2tbeu
There's a problem in Windows XP,

Even when you run TC as Administrator?

I am a user with Administrator rights in Windows XP. There's no UAC here, and it doesn't matter. I have no access to my own NTUSER.DAT and ntuser.dat.LOG content in TC (both open and locked by OS), but I can see their attributes (including timestamps) in directory listing. And I can browse index.dat files and even change their timestamps using TC. The files are just always open and used by the system (Explorer/shell and other apps using Explorer/IE libs) - you can't delete them.

@tbeu
You don't need to open any file to read its attributes from MFT/FAT table.

[Horst.Epp]

I think using a util like FolderTimeUpdate from Nirsoft would be the better way
to make this job and it contains all settings one may search for.
https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/folder_time_update.html

[tbeu]

@tbeu
You don't need to open any file to read its attributes from MFT/FAT table.

Reading MSDN: First parameter of GetFileTime is the file handle which must have been created using the CreateFile function with the GENERIC_READ access right.

[Dalai]

2tbeu
Maybe FindFirstFile is better in such a case? WIN32_FINDDATA structure contains all three file times, too.

Regards
Dalai

[tbeu]

2tbeu
Maybe FindFirstFile is better in such a case? WIN32_FINDDATA structure contains all three file times, too.

Regards
Dalai

Good point. Please try SetFolderDate version 1.2.0.0.

[Usher]

2tbeu
Now it works OK and seems to be faster. Just one little thing - could you use shorter "extension" - setDIRdate or DIRdate? TC uses <DIR> name…

[tbeu]

@Usher
Thanks for confirmation. Will fix the default "extension" with the next update.

[Usher]

2tbeu
You should change icon for Redate. It's invisible in dark mode.

[tbeu]

Which icon actually?

[Usher]

Of course the default one, added to buttonbar. Currently it's a "Redate" text, black on a transparent background, with no light border around letters.

[tbeu]

There is no icon in SetFolderDate.wcx.

[Usher]

2tbeu
I mean Redate util (addon, exe) as in the topic title, not your SetFolderDate plugin. Sorry for wrong addressing.

@moderators: Could you change titles in this topic, please? It's NOT about Redate util so it's misleading. "Change date of" or "Change timestamp of" will be better.