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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?

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:

EDIT:

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

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 wrote: ↑26 Oct 2022, 03:37 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.

brijazz wrote: ↑26 Oct 2022, 12:15 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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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:
Am I structuring the command incorrectly, or otherwise missing something? Any further help is much appreciated!

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:

Success, thanks!