What's new in FolderTimeUpdate 1.72
Aug 22, 2023
- Fixed bug: When using the 'Exclude the following folders from scanning' option, the base folder was also checked with the excluded folders list.
New in FolderTimeUpdate 1.71 (Oct 26, 2022)
- Updated to stop the process when you press the Esc key.
New in FolderTimeUpdate 1.70 (Jul 6, 2022)
- Added new options: 'Exclude the following folders from scanning' and 'Exclude the following folders from updating'.
- If you exclude a folder from scanning, FolderTimeUpdate will skip the folder completely. If you exclude a folder from updating, FolderTimeUpdate will scan the folder normally, but it'll not update the date/time values of this folder.
- In both options, you can specify multiple folders delimited by comma and you can use wildcards. You can specify only the folder name or the full path of the folder.
New in FolderTimeUpdate 1.65 (Apr 26, 2022)
- Added option to control how the modified time of the folder is updated. You can choose one of the following options: Don't update the modified time, Update the modified time according to the newest modified time (The default option), Update the modified time according to the newest created time, Update the modified time according to the oldest modified time, Update the modified time according to the oldest created time
New in FolderTimeUpdate 1.61 (Apr 2, 2022)
- Added 'Explorer Context Menu - Folder Background' option. If you turn on this option, FolderTimeUpdate menu item will be added to the directory background context menu of Windows Explorer.
New in FolderTimeUpdate 1.60 (Feb 1, 2022)
- Added new option: 'Update folders in the following depth range'. You can choose, for example, to update only the date/time of the base folder or to update only the date/time of subfolders at level 1 and 2. The default range is from subfolder level 1 to infinite.
- This option replaces the previous 'Update also the base folder' option.
- Added 'Modified Difference' and 'Created Difference' columns, which display the time difference between the original folder time and the new folder time generated by the FolderTimeUpdate tool.
- Fixed the /cfg command-line option to load the .cfg file from the current directory if full path is not specified.
New in FolderTimeUpdate 1.55 (Apr 27, 2019)
- Added 'Explorer Context Menu' option. When it's turned on, you can right-click on a folder of Windows Explorer, choose 'FolderTimeUpdate' from the context menu, and FolderTimeUpdate will be opened with this folder.
- Fixed bug: FolderTimeUpdate failed to remember the last size/position of the main window if it was not located in the primary monitor.
New in FolderTimeUpdate 1.52 (Jun 4, 2018)
- Increased the size of the 'Update Mode' combo-box.
New in FolderTimeUpdate 1.51 (Nov 15, 2017)
- Fixed issue: When running FolderTimeUpdate in the first time without .cfg file, the window of FolderTimeUpdate was too small and the start button was hidden.
New in FolderTimeUpdate 1.50 (Jul 31, 2017)
- Added 'Skip files that match the following wildcards' option.
New in FolderTimeUpdate 1.46 (Oct 24, 2016)
- Fixed bug: FolderTimeUpdate failed to update the creation time if the folder had 0 files.
New in FolderTimeUpdate 1.45 (Oct 18, 2016)
- Added 'Include time of files in all subfolders' for the 'Creation Time' field
New in FolderTimeUpdate 1.40 (Sep 29, 2016)
- Added 'Set the specified time to empty folders (Local Time)' option (In previous versions, the 'Set the specified time to empty folders' option worked in GMT, now you can also use this option with your local time)
- Added 'Align Numeric Columns To Right' option.
New in FolderTimeUpdate 1.37 (May 26, 2016)
- Fixed FolderTimeUpdate to save the empty folder date/time value to the .cfg file.
New in FolderTimeUpdate 1.36 (Apr 25, 2016)
- Added 'Set the modified time of empty folders to their created time' to the 'Empty Folders' option.
- Fixed bug: When using command-line, FolderTimeUpdate saved the files in ANSI encoding, but Added Byte order mark of Unicode.
New in FolderTimeUpdate 1.35 (Mar 15, 2016)
- Updating date/time of folders from command-line: You can now update the date/time of folders without displaying any user interface, for example: FolderTimeUpdate.exe /BaseFolder "c:\MyFiles" /scomma "c:\temp\updatelog.csv"
- Added /cfg command-line parameter to load another config file instead of the default one (FolderTimeUpdate.cfg)
- Fixed FolderTimeUpdate to save the current settings to the config file if you exit without clicking the start button.
New in FolderTimeUpdate 1.31 (Feb 16, 2016)
- Added 'Skip files that their date/time is greater than the current time' option
New in FolderTimeUpdate 1.30 (May 20, 2015)
- Added option to update the creation time of folder in 3 different methods: Update the created time with the same value of modified time, update the created time accoding to the oldest created time of files inside the folder, or update the created time accoding to the oldest modified time of files inside the folder.
New in FolderTimeUpdate 1.26 (Dec 29, 2014)
- Added 'Run As Administrator' option (Ctrl+F11), which allows you to easily run FolderTimeUpdate as administrator on Windows Vista/7/8/2008. You should use this option if you get a 'Access is denied' error while trying to update the folder date/time.
New in FolderTimeUpdate 1.25 (Nov 21, 2014)
- Added option to specify one or more wildcards (delimited by comma) to scan. For example, if you type in this field '*.exe', only the .exe files will be used to calculate the modified time of the folder.
New in FolderTimeUpdate 1.20 (Oct 22, 2014)
- Added 'Mark Items With Time Change' option.
- Added 'Display only items with time change' option to the Log Display combo-box.
New in FolderTimeUpdate 1.16 (Oct 8, 2014)
- Added 'Skip hidden and system files' option.
New in FolderTimeUpdate 1.15 (Sep 21, 2014)
- Added 'Files' and 'SubFolders' columns, which display the number of files and subFolders in every folder.
- Added 'Update also the base folder' option.
New in FolderTimeUpdate 1.10 (Aug 27, 2014)
- Added browse folder button.
- Added option to drag a folder from Explorer into FolderTimeUpdate window in order to choose the desired folder.
- Added 'Open Selected Folder' option.
- Fixed bug: Failed to show dates earlier than 1985.
- Fixed bug with the accelerator keys.
New in FolderTimeUpdate 1.01 (Jul 25, 2014)
- Fixed to display the main window properly when using large fonts settings.