In Linux whenever you decompress a folder, move or copy a file, its modification time changes. So it is super simple to organize a lot of files based on modification time. However in Windows this does not work and it is the most damned infuriating thing to deal with. It will retain the original file creation date, no matter what. So even though I just downloaded this file, its new on my system, the file explorer will organize it based on it's original creation time. Which COMPLETELY fucks up my system for organizing my data. It completely awful, I'm super lost and I'm going to just lose files this way because an older creation date just buries them with 100s of others...
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@charlie_root In Windows "date created" and "date modified" are also separate attributes — you can make the corresponding columns visible in Explorer. In theory it even supports "date accessed" — so-called atime, but I'm not sure all versions of NTFS support that.
And yes, I have just checked — extracting a file from an archive using Explorer alters its modification time 🤷
@m0xee
> And yes, I have just checked — extracting a file from an archive using Explorer alters its modification time 🤷
Weird, for me that's not happening. I am using peazip.
> And yes, I have just checked — extracting a file from an archive using Explorer alters its modification time 🤷
Weird, for me that's not happening. I am using peazip.
@m0xee
Yep you figured it out! peazip does not change the mod time of files when you extract, windows explorer does. Friggen peazip...
Yep you figured it out! peazip does not change the mod time of files when you extract, windows explorer does. Friggen peazip...
@charlie_root
Although you expect the filesystem itself to handle this, it does not and it might depend on software 😂
Windows can sure be counterintuitive!
Unfortunately for me Windows is not treating the copying or unzipping of the files as a "modification" so they are basically the same thing. It's just makes them impossible to organize outside of me just creating more smaller folders.
Luckily Mixxx will organize by BPM and key, but right now I have a bunch of new music I want to listen to and its a pain when I unzip the folders and its gone...
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