Demand for a program that'll fix invalid file creation dates?

[Tacit]

Some time ago, I had a dead battery in one of my iMacs, which caused the system
clock to become screwy. As it happens, I did a major overhaul to my Web site
that day, and so ended up with almost a hundred files with invalid creation
dates.

That's a significant annoyance, because I upload files to my Web site by date,
and it becomes difficult to synchronize everything when the file dates are
wrong.

On my way back from a business trip in New york on Wednesday, i was bored on
the plane, so i wrote an application which will scan a folder searching for
files with bad dates, and fix the dates.

I'm considering releasing it as freeware, but it has some rough edges I need to
clean up first. So: is it worthwhile? Is this a common problem? If nobody'll
use it, i don't really want to clean it up and post it on my Web site--but if
it'll be beneficial to people, I'll go ahead and do it.

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[Tom Harrington]

In article <20030725163511.09785.00000390@mb-m11.aol.com>,
[email]tacitr@aol.com[/email] (Tacit) wrote:

> On my way back from a business trip in New york on Wednesday, i was bored on
> the plane, so i wrote an application which will scan a folder searching for
> files with bad dates, and fix the dates.

Just out of curiosity, what do you set the dates to?

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[Tacit]

>Just out of curiosity, what do you set the dates to?

The current system date and time--not perfect, but better than "January 1,
1904" or "September 23, 2038". :)

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[George Williams]

Tacit wrote:

> I'm considering releasing it as freeware, but it has some rough edges I need to
> clean up first. So: is it worthwhile? Is this a common problem?

I've seen it occasionally
.....but.....
doesn't Diskwarrior fix bad dates?

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In article <20030725163511.09785.00000390@mb-m11.aol.com>,
Tacit <tacitr@aol.com> wrote:

>Some time ago, I had a dead battery in one of my iMacs, which caused the system
>clock to become screwy. As it happens, I did a major overhaul to my Web site
>that day, and so ended up with almost a hundred files with invalid creation
>dates.
>
>That's a significant annoyance, because I upload files to my Web site by date,
>and it becomes difficult to synchronize everything when the file dates are
>wrong.
>

- - I guess a GUI is okay, but this is a trivial problem to fix
with two standard unix command line tools ( find and
/bin/touch). If you are running a unix box and OS X is a
unix box, it's worth your while to learn and understand how
to use both find and xargs. There are man pages for all these
utilities.

- - Booker C. Bense

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[Tacit]

>- - I guess a GUI is okay, but this is a trivial problem to fix

> with two standard unix command line tools ( find and
> /bin/touch).

True, if you're using OS X. I was using OS 9 at the time. :)

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[Tacit]

>I've seen it occasionally

>....but.....
>doesn't Diskwarrior fix bad dates?

Diskwarrior and Norton Utilities both...but they're both commercial, and DW
requires you to boot from a different volume.

FWIW, my program is very,very fast; processing a thousand files takes less than
a second.

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[George Williams]

Tacit wrote:

> FWIW, my program is very,very fast; processing a thousand files takes less than
> a second.

Then it would be a good idea to write it and distribute it,
especially if you have some ftp or http space to store it
for download.

[mark hune]

George Williams wrote:

> Tacit wrote:
>
>

>>FWIW, my program is very,very fast; processing a thousand files takes less than
>>a second.

>
>
> Then it would be a good idea to write it and distribute it,
> especially if you have some ftp or http space to store it
> for download.

I would love to get a copy , would it be able to monitor a folder..?