Prevent updating date when not renaming

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Marth
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Prevent updating date when not renaming

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Is there a way to prevent Filebot from touching the file date if it's not renaming the file? Did a scan of my movies folder (for example) and it changed the file date to the date/time of the scan, even if it didn't rename the file...

I was using the Windows portable GUI

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Re: Prevent updating date when not renaming

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FileBot does not touch the date/time. However, Windows may change the last-modified time automatically whenever a file is renamed or xattr tagged. FileBot writing xattr metadata might be the reason Windows changes the last-modified date of the corresponding file. You can disable xattr support by adding the -no-xattr option when launching FileBot. Worth a try.

e.g. Set Environment Variables via CMD:

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setx FILEBOT_OPTS "-DuseExtendedFileAttributes=false"
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Re: Prevent updating date when not renaming

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@rednoah - thanks for the reply - that must be it as all of the files were touched to update the date/time displayed.

Will the Windows GUI version pickup on the environment variable?

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Re: Prevent updating date when not renaming

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Yes. Both GUI and CLI should pick up the FILEBOT_OPTS environment variable.

:idea: I'd kinda recommend keeping xattr though. Might come in handy at some point. Throwing away information is generally not a good idea, unless you have a very good reason. ;)
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Thanks again!
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