Folder creation date...

[dj9866]

Is it possible to retrieve the creation date of a folder? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[emmanuel]

Have you read the helpfile? maybe looked under Function Ref and File, Directory and Disk Management?

FileGetTime.

[dj9866]

I have been through the help file numerous times and haven't found anything referencing a folder's creation date. FileGetTime returns an error code of 1 when used on a folder.

Edited July 29, 2004 by dj9866

[emmanuel]

I have been through the help file numerous times and haven't found anything referencing a folder's creation date.  FileGetTime returns an error code of 1 when used on a folder.

damn, and I was feeling so damned smrat.

that sounds like functionality that really should be there... know c? I don't...

[dj9866]

Nor do I. Thanks.

[trids]

DOS to the rescue

You can do a DOS "dir /ad" .. which gives this kind of thing:

03-07-30  14:55         <DIR>          Acrobat3
03-07-30  16:24         <DIR>          ADOBEAPP
03-09-01  16:36         <DIR>          BDE32
02-11-08  13:40         <DIR>          Desktop
03-03-17  16:31         <DIR>          IDAPI
02-12-04  12:47         <DIR>          Inetpub

You can then cleverly ..

• Redirect this to a text file and read it back from your script.
• Or pipe the command to the clipboard which you can then parse in your script (more on this here)

HTH

[dj9866]

Never gave DOS a thought. Thanks for the input.

[Bartokv]

Heh heh, DOS is awesome...

Just be careful: some versions of the comspec act differently on each platform. (ie: "ping" acts differently in 95, 2000, and XP -- as does "dir" and various other commands/executables.) Sometimes the return codes will be different/nonexistent, the output fields may not be the same, or some other nuance will drive you crazy.