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Re: Program to modify file Date and Time in Windows?

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From: Phred
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:54
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In article <450e7ef9$1_2@news.chariot.net.au>, "me here" <gloaming_agnet@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Phred wrote:
>> From time to time I need to "touch" a group of data files and their 
>> derivatives so they all end up with the same time stamp.
>> 
>> To date, I've been using the 15-year old FD.EXE from my old version
>> of Norton's Utilities.  It works, but it can be a pain to use in deep 
>> directory structures because you have to either migrate to the 
>> directory from the DOS prompt, or specify the whole bloody thing on 
>> the command line. It's clearly one of those cases where something
>> like the Windows Explorer interface has the advantage over the DOS
>> CLI.
>> 
>> So, question is, what can you recommend that will do this sort of job 
>> under Windows 9x and XP?  It's not such a big deal that I want to 
>> spend anything more than a trivial amount of money on it, at most. :)
>
>Replsoft "Change Attributes" is free and supposedly does what you want.
>
>http://www.replsoft.com/changeattr.html

Thanks for the suggestion, Rob.  I'll keep it in mind, but it seems it 
needs the full "Useful File Utilities" installation to make it work as 
a plugin.  UFU is about 1.3 MB without plugins, and costs USD30 
(currently about AUD40) which is a bit more than I'm happy to pay in 
this case -- unless UFU itself is a "must have" (and I don't know 
anyone who has got it 8-).


Cheers, Phred.

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