Change Date Modified of Series Folder

[brijazz]

I use the CLI to rename my files and place them into Season folders under the Series folder, which I assume is pretty standard usage. However, the 'date modified' only changes on the Season folder when new files are added (as per the screenshot).

Is there anything I can add to my script (using -exec perhaps?) that will allow me to 'touch' the Series folder when it runs, thereby updating its 'date modifed' as well?

[rednoah]

I don't know how macOS updates folder Last-Modified times in response to file changes within that folder.


If touch works on folders, then you can certainly use -exec to touch the folder:

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-exec touch {folder}

EDIT:

FileBot r9325 enhanced --apply touch to also update the Last-Modified date for parent folders of destination files.

[brijazz]

Thanks, I didn't know about --apply. Unfortunately, it's not working for me and the Series folder's date modified remains unchanged. Not a huge issue, just would be handy for sorting the folders in Finder. It would have been great to have this all done via Filebot, but I've found a solution using AppleScript that gets the job done. Good enough for me!

[rednoah]

FileBot r9325 enhanced --apply touch to also update the Last-Modified date for parent folders of destination files.

FileBot r9325 is the latest development revision from yesterday. Future releases (i.e. FileBot 4.9.8 and higher) will update the Last-Modified of parent folders as well. The current release (i.e. FileBot 4.9.6) does not implement the newly introduced behaviour.

just would be handy for sorting the folders in Finder. It would have been great to have this all done via Filebot

Yes, the -exec option can be used to do that with FileBot.

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-exec touch {folder}

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[brijazz]

Thanks for following up, I'll await 4.9.8 to try out --apply touch. Even with -exec, I'm still not seeing 'date modified' being updated on the series folder. My command looks like this:

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filebot -rename myfile.mkv -non-strict --log info --log-file ~/Documents/filebot.log --format "{~plex} [{vf}]" -exec touch {folder}

Am I structuring the command incorrectly, or otherwise missing something? Any further help is much appreciated!

[rednoah]

What does the console output say? (TIP: remove --log INFO so that you can see the -exec logging so you can see what touch commands are being executed)



EDIT:

-exec touch {folder} will only issue one touch command for each parent folder of each file processed. If you use series folder / season folder / episode file naming then it will touch the parent folder / season folder, but it won't touch the parent parent folder / series folder.

If you want to run touch on the parent folder and the parent parent folder, then you can add that to the -exec command template:

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-exec touch {folder} {folder.dir}

[brijazz]

Success, thanks!