Comments on: How to change the last modified date, creation date, and last accessed date for files and folders

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:32:33 +0000

I made a backup of a file I had and put it into a folder to prepare for backup to DVD. Problem is later on I accidentally double clicked (mouse has bad button and double clicked) when I only meant to highlight it and copy it to another folder for playback (cool video I wanted to watch). Problem is the backup was my ONLY copy on the computer, and double clicking the file in the backup folder changed its last accessed date and time! I wanted to back it up to DVD with the CORRECT date and time in ALL fields (created, last modified, last accessed). But now I don’t have the chance. Your program lets me change the date, but I don’t remember what it was SUPPOSED to be. Is there a trick in Windows to “revert” a file’s metadata (including all dates and times) back to a previous (and CORRECT) values?

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:42:55 +0000

Wow! I used the first one and viola! I am thoroughly impressed!

Thank you!

By: EddyQ

EddyQ — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:41:10 +0000

Here is another way to change the date/time on a file to today’s date/time (a “touch” in Linux terms):

copy this.ext+

By: Astronomical-110

Astronomical-110 — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 04:07:22 +0000

Does Anyone know how to remove all the non-essential information on a file? including the owner of the file, date created, all the other useless details.

The only information i need my file to have is the bare minimum, so you would not be able to tell anything more than its size, name and location on the hard drive

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 31 May 2010 21:13:58 +0000

A while ago some automatic updates changed the date format of my e-mail in outlook to the American format. I have tried to change it back to UK through the regional settings on my computer and the settings of my IP/web host. Their help team cannot see my problem and all suggestions have failed

If I open in Fire fox it is OK. can you please tell me how to get my date back to UK using explorer as, appart from this being incredibly irritiating, it is leading to mistakes.

Thanks

Liz

By: kathryne

kathryne — Fri, 28 May 2010 12:38:04 +0000

I found some pictures on the hard drive back up we have. I was wondering how to tell when they were put on the hard drive. I was told he got them when somebody tried to hack his laptop – wireless – so he said he hacked them back and pulled stuff off their laptop to teach them a lesson….how is this possible? Is he lieing?

By: Gasss

Gasss — Tue, 25 May 2010 21:17:51 +0000

Thank you very much!!! You helped me a lot and the programs are very easy. I’m using it to read manga on my PSP which automaticaly arranges the pictures by date modified and shuffles them up. I almost gave up…

By: DC

DC — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:24:49 +0000

Im a complicated guy. Could you explain how to change them manually…? To quote you on 20th Oct 2007… (wow, that long ago)

“Whenever you look at a file, the Last Accessed date changes to the current time. However, you can still change it, though I don’t think it’s terrible useful. Only Last Modified and Creation Date make sense. ”

Its kinda useful to me to see who/what is accessing what…just make a script to scour the drive, and return filenames and paths to any folders that have been accessed between so and so a date, just so I know a particular someone is looking through my stuff…

By: AC

AC — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:23:18 +0000

Hey,
I was just wondering if you guys could help me out with a problem im having. I attend college, and needed to turn in a paper to my professor by 12 pm 3/19/10. I barely finished the paper today and was wondering if there is a way to change the email timestamp of my email server so it appears as if the email was sent on friday.

By: Elwin

Elwin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:41:01 +0000

On our website you can find utilities to change file date-time stamps, image-EXIF date stamps and even modify dates of doc/xml files. Utility can modify lots of properties and metadata – not only date-time type. AttributeMagic can bulk rename files (add date-time stamp to file name), can extract date-time from file name and much more.

AttributeMagic.com

By: aj4

aj4 — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:01:54 +0000

Hi everyone. Newbie here. I have one situation need some explaination/guideline.

Let say I install a trial software today (30th Jan 2010). After 2 months later, the software expired. Question: Does the freeware that u guys talking about works? (to go back the time which is 1st time install the trial software?) If it does, what kind of folder/exe file/extension file that i have to select?

Thank you in advance.

By: AA

AA — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:55:52 +0000

As a note, I tried SetFile Date 2.0 on a PDF file and while it changes the date for Windows (the date you see when browsing in Windows folders), it doesn’t change the Metadata value in the PDF file, and one of the metadata fields is the date! So when you go to File_Properties in Acrobat, you will see the real date that file was created.

There’s a way around this: import the metadata from another PDF file created earlier, but this means finding a file that matches the data you want to set. Unless there are apps that will also change the metadata values of files containing metadata, GOOD LUCK.

By: N23

N23 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:22:06 +0000

My car stereo can read USB harddrives and playback MP3′s. This is great news, BUT it sorts the drive contents by date modified, not by name. This is obviously pretty annoying.

I found a program called DriveSort that purports to resort the modified/created attributes to match an alpha sort, but it only half works. Can anyone recommend a program that’ll rewrite modified/created dates so they reflect alpha order?
Thanks!

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:25:38 +0000

Hello guys! I know a thousand programs that could change these dates but what about hiding them. Can they be hidden or removed?

By: Simon E

Simon E — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:52:14 +0000

To Bob Branham,

If you get hold of Adobe Lightroom you can change the Metadata values to +/- time or days/years.