Bulk change file creation date

Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. User Moderator. Hello Robert, You can modify the date created by copying a file. Let us know if you need further assistance. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.

In reply to A. Accepted Daniel Anderson with thanks. I know what symbolic links are but I wouldn't expect to be applying this script to those, it would be a defined list of images.

I just tested it, and it works as described in the post here and I can't see how the reverse ordering would happen from the logic in the script. Add a comment. Good Question although maybe Flickr should have any option for ordering the uploaded files. For Windows i would suggest Nirsoft Bulk File Changer For Linux one could easily write a bash script and utilize the touch command to change multiple files. Christopher Wilson Christopher Wilson 3 3 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges.

From a quick look at the website my impression is that yes it does bulk date stamp modification but the modification is the same applied to all the files, rather than applying an ascending value throughout a batch as I describe in my question. On many file systems Ext4 comes to mind , the "last modified" and other time stamps are only kept at second precision as standard, so the above will in practice give all the files the exact same time stamp, which will return the Flickr selection back to file name order.

The sleep 1 addition should suffice, but it will of course take a minute for every 60 files in the directory. I did that to a batch of files. It can be done. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Here is one sno. I'd rather fix the modification date and not the file creation date. The file creation date is updated everytime you copy the file to another place so it is pretty useless.

The file modification date is preserved on copy. Another tool: exiv2. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Read carefully what Chris wrote in his blog. Improve this answer. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Execute Command On Selected Files F7 : Allows you to run any executable with the selected files as command-line parameter.

For example: BulkFileChanger. The change is made according to the last settings stored in the. You can choose to load another. If you specify 0, BulkFileChanger will not scan the subfolders. This command-line option is very powerful, so you should use it carefully. It's recommended to test it with a single small folder to check that it works as expected before running it on a full drive Open the created language file in Notepad or in any other text editor.

Translate all string entries to the desired language. After you finish the translation, Run BulkFileChanger, and all translated strings will be loaded from the language file.