Preserve File Modification Date

[aimy]

Hi.

Is it possible to preserve the file modification date even after changes were made?

Really hope that the answer is yes.

But how do I achieve that?

Thank you.

[ben_josephs]

Do you mean that you want to modify some files without changing their modification times?
Why would you want to do that?

If there is a good reason for it you might:

• record the files' modification times (perhaps using DIR on the Windows command line);
• modify the files;
• change the modification times back to the saved modification times (perhaps using a version of linux touch or Powershell LastWriteTime on the Windows command line).

[takeos]

I have the exact same feature wish. It is not uncommon for "search and replace" tools to have such an option.

One scenario where I would use this, is when some boilerplate text in source code headers (comments) needs to be updated, and touching the last modified date would result in a loss of information (you can no longer see at a glance when a "real" change was made, sort by date to look up a recent change, etc.)

Yes, there are workarounds, but it still would be nice to have this option in WildEdit.