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Question regarding create/read/update file attributes in code

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Difference between modification_time and change_time in fs::file_info()

The R package fs provides the function file_info() which returns a tibble containing i.a. the variables: modification_time The time of last data modification, as a POSIXct datetime. access_time The time of last access - as a POSIXct…
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Apply Folder Icon Change

I am attempting to change the icon of a folder. The code below does all what I found online says to do but the icon never changes. Am I maybe not "Applying" the change? string createdFile = Path.Combine(@"C:\Users\np\Desktop\PUTEST",…
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How to know whether a file was processed before

How can I be sure if a file was processed before? There is a remote storage location which is a file source for my application. My program gets files from this location and processes them in a scheduled way. How can I be sure that the next time I…
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Java I/O: Setting time stamp

I'm reading Oracle documentation and encountered something that looks like an error to me. Perhaps someone can confirm, or explain it better than the…
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Set Created date on a PHP download

I have a PHP function for letting a user download files. (There are a few custom functions in the code, maybe_redirect, validate_document, headers_no_cache, etc., but you get the idea from the names, and what they do precisely isn't germane to the…
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Windows Command Line - Changing a file modified timestamp to an earlier datetime

in windows command line i can use the following to change the timestamp of a file to the current datetime: copy /b filename.ext +,, what i need is a way to set the timestamp to a previous datetime (-1 day, -1 week etc) is this possible? What i…
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setting the create date of a file

I have a folder full of mp3 files. They are named consecutively 01.mp3 through 86.mp3. They currently all have the same create_date. I need them to all have different create_dates, preferably a day apart. What the create date is doesn't really…
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Check file creation time in jenkins pipeline

I'm wondering if anybody knows a generic way in Jenkins pipeline to find out the creation time of a file? There are operations to touch a file but seemingly not for reading that time. What I actually want to do is to clean out workspaces every few…
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Fetch File Attribute of windows shared data using smb file path in java

I was working on the logic to ignore the file's which is created by "Microsoft" which crawling the C:\ drive as shared using CIFS ("smb://hostname:445/sharedfoldername"). I was using the suggested solution by my previous post link (Solution was to…
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Is there any way to know that FileSystemInfo.Refresh failed?

It seems that FileSystemInfo.Refresh requires specific rights on the file even though I can't find anything about it in the documentation. I suspect it requires write access to properly work. Is there a way to check whether a call to that method…
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How to set a file to write-only or read-only in Msys or Cygwin?

The function chmod is implemented in Cygwin but does not fully match access rights in Windows. This appears in the following change log: https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ov-new1.7.html Since 1.7.34, chmod does not always affect the POSIX permission…
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Can a batch file change the system date; save file with attributes; change date back to current date?

Can a batch file change the system date; save file with attributes; change date back to current date? Goal to save MYFILE.TXT with the date of 01-01-2010 using Batch commands. I have tried to set date=01-01-2010 and then save the file, but it didn't…
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Firefox add-ons: 1) Linking Python script to add-on main code | 2) win32 api in JPM / NPM | 3) set file attributes in Windows with OS.file

I would like to use the win32 API to create an hidden file on Windows OS. It seems impossible using JS / Node.js. With Python, importing the API, it is possible (using SetFileAttributes routine and FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN parameter). So how can I link…
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delete files which are more than one month old using c#

how to delete files which are more than one month old using c# script. i am using framework 2.0..
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xattr/extended attributes not settable for file in /tmp while in $home on same mount works fine

I am playing with extended file attributes under Linux/Fedora and I am currently stumbling a bit since I cannot add/change attributes for files in /tmp while in my home it is working fine - while both paths are on the same mount point, i.e.,…
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