original date of the creation of the file

[kmaster]

Hello,

I want to put the original date of the creation of the file. how to make?
thank you

[rednoah]

When you say "original date", do you mean that you want to set the file creation date to the the movie release date / episode air date?

This behaviour can be enabled by setting FILEBOT_OPTS environment variable as follows:

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-DuseExtendedFileAttributes=true -DuseCreationDate=true

Note that changing timestamps can interfere with incremental backup software in unexpected ways.

[kmaster]

Hello,

I searched the forum and did not find how to use FILEBOT_OPTS.

I do not know where to put this code:

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-DuseExtendedFileAttributes = true -DuseCreationDate = true

Thanks for helping, filebot is working properly, I am happy to find this excellent program!

Thanks for helping

[rednoah]

Hit the Windows key, then type env, and then the Windows Start menu search should already give you an Edit Environment Variables option.

Here's a tutorial on how to set environment variables on Windows:
https://www.addictivetips.com/windows-t ... indows-10/

Click New.

Variable:

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FILEBOT_OPTS

Value:

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-DuseExtendedFileAttributes=true -DuseCreationDate=true

Use copy & paste and make sure to not add extra spaces in the snippets I posted.

[gansqa]

I'm wanting this as well but I want it to keep the original creation date of the file, not the episode air date. I tried the code above but it changed the file creation date to the episode aired date. I want it to be the date of my specific file created. How do I do this please?

[rednoah]

-DuseCreationDate=false would disable this behavior. By default FileBot does not modify timestamps.

[gansqa]

-DuseCreationDate=false would disable this behavior. By default FileBot does not modify timestamps.

Perfect. That works thank you