Auto Refresh Question?

[harrismail]

I don't know whether it's the Windows 10 x64 Home I've just cleanly installed but here goes..

I've got a 128GB SSD as my main system drive and a 1TB data conventional HD.

For years (with an almost identical setup) if I open a pdf within Firefox and choose to save it to the documents folder it would automatically set the parent folder date as the same datestamp as the new file within (so the folder would automatically appear at the top when date order was selected).... but now I'm finding that the parent folder (the System "Documents" which is now on the Data drive does not update its datestamp unless I open the folder and then go back up one level?? I don't have to do anything except open and close the folder - then the datestamp is updated!!

I have never needed to set any options like "Auto Refresh when the file system changes" but even changing this makes no difference??

The system drive does not have this issue - only when opening and saving a PDF within Firefox to the Documents folder on the data HD!!

I have tried both TC 32bit and 64bit but both have the same outcome.

The question is - why?

[ghisler(Author)]

The behaviour of the NTFS file system is indeed very strange. In general, it updates the timestamp of a folder when something in that folder "file" object changes. The problem is that many file properties are not stored in that file object, but in extra streams of the actual file. Also the file object is updated with a delay, for speed reasons.

[harrismail]

Thanks for the reply Christian.

Yes there's a few strange oddities like for instance I've noticed when using a very popular piece of scanning software called Vuescan that if I scan something into a folder on the Data drive then the folder won't "update" it's timestamp until I exit Vuescan!!

The file is "there" but until Vuescan quits the folder won't update the timestamp?

Does that make sense to you?

[ghisler(Author)]

Maybe Vuescan closes the file only when quitting?

[harrismail]

Just one last thing...

Both of the above situations(Vuescan and Firefox PDF Download) do NOT have the same outcome if the file is saved to a folder on the system partition.

This only seems to happen on the data drive - which is just another partition on the same SSD?

How can that be possible???

Really confused now.

[ghisler(Author)]

Windows indexing service?