Date-time and Attributes in the [..]-row

[[Yustas.NeO]]

On flash(?)-drive with FAT32 (on flash-drive with NTFS - it's ok) in the [..]-row show no Attributes and show not "Modification date-time" but "Creation date-time".
Why?

[ghisler(Author)]

Do you mean an USB stick? Sorry, I cannot reproduce it, the [..] item is shown with attributes and modification date.

[[Yustas.NeO]]

Do you mean an USB stick?

Yes.


I tested three my USB-stick (2 - FAT32, 1 - FAT) even on clean TC installation... Win7 32-bit.
Go to drive root. Create folder "1". Set attributes "Archived" and "Read only". Set "Modif time" 01.01.2001 01:01:01.
Copy To Clipboard With All Details: 1\ <DIR> 01.01.2001 01:01 ra--
Enter this folder i see [..] <DIR> 19.03.2012 18:17 ----

[karlchen]

Hi, [Yustas.NeO].

The entry [..] points to the parent folder of the current folder, not to the current folder itself.
You have set the foldertime for the folder "1", but not for its parent folder which is the root folder of the drive in this case.
So your expectation is incorrect, not what you see.

Karl

[[Yustas.NeO]]

Win7 32-bit.

On WinXP same thing:
on NTFS it shows modification date, on FAT32 - creation.

The entry [..] points to the parent folder of the current folder, not to the current folder itself.
You have set the foldertime for the folder "1", but not for its parent folder which is the root folder of the drive in this case.
So your expectation is incorrect, not what you see.

"C:\1\" Creation time "19.03.2012 21:43:56", Modification time "01.01.2001 01:01:02"
"C:\1\2\" Creation time "19.03.2012 21:43:56", Modification time "02.02.2002 02:02:02"

Entering "C:\1\2\"
On NTFS: [..] <DIR> 02.02.2002 02:02 ----
On FAT: [..] <DIR> 19.03.2012 21:43 ----

[ghisler(Author)]

I can only say that TC is always using the field "Modification Date" of the WIN32_FIND_DATA structure. If Windows returns the creation date in the modification date field, TC will show that instead...

[petermad]

It has always been like that with TC for FAT drives when the date/time is manually changed for a directory - the changed date/time which is the modified time is shown for the folder, when outside the folder, but when inside the folder, the date for[..] shows the creation time - I have always considered it a feature, that you in this way can easily see the orignal creation time.

BTW - in Custom columns view nothing is shown for [..] when you use for example tc:creationdate or tc.writedate

[ghisler(Author)]

Maybe that is actually the modification date of the [..] item? It's a real file (of 0 byte size) stored in the directory. If Windows doesn't update the date of the [..] item when it changes the date of the actual directory, then the date will indeed be the same as the creation date.