File Creation Date Windows Store Version

[Wiidesire]

I've been using FileBot for a while and modified the ini settings in order to set the File creation date to when the episode originally aired. Since a 75% off promo is running right now I bought Filebot from the Windows Store.
Now I've looked everywhere (both on this forum and on my computer) and can't find any documentation whatsoever about the Windows Store version. Where is the settings file? The only settings I found are in the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs\net\filebot.

The question:
How to set the file creation date as air date in the Windows Store version?

[rednoah]

Presumably, you're asking how to set the useCreationDate Java system property:

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-DuseCreationDate=true

You can either set the JAVA_OPTS or the FILEBOT_OPTS environment variable if you want to pass in additional default startup options.


You can use this CMD command to set the FILEBOT_OPTS environment variable:

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setx FILEBOT_OPTS -DuseCreationDate=true

[Wiidesire]

Thanks for the fast answer.

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setx FILEBOT_OPTS -DuseCreationDate=true

Works for the air date as creation date.

However on my Win10 Pro machine the modified date gets updated to the current date when I rename files. To fix this:

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setx FILEBOT_OPTS -DuseExtendedFileAttributes=false

However I can't seem to add both options:

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setx FILEBOT_OPTS -DuseExtendedFileAttributes=false -DuseCreationDate=true

Error: Syntax, standard option can't be used more than two times.

How can I use multiple FILEBOT_OPTS options?

[rednoah]

setx accepts 2 arguments, key and value:

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setx FILEBOT_OPTS "-DuseExtendedFileAttributes=false -DuseCreationDate=true"

If you prefer a GUI, then you can use "Edit Environment Variables" in the Windows Settings.

[Wiidesire]

Perfect, just needed the quotes for it to work. Thanks for the tip, I'll probably use the Environment Variables GUI in the future (if I need it) in order to not override previous settings.