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Date Modified for sub folders?

So when you look at the date modified of a top level folder in Windows it will show the last time an object in that folder was modified but not look further into sub folders. I understand this is by design. Is anyone aware of a program or way to modify this so the modified date will reflect any changes made in any of the sub folders as well?

Essentially I just want to be able to look at the top folder and see if ANYTHING contained inside has been modified.

Bill Prew

Actually, it's not true that the parent folder last change date is updated when an existing file within it is changed. The folder last changed date only indicates when changes were made to it, not files it contains. This is most common when files are added or deleted (or subfolders) from the parent folder.

There is no way built in to Windows to have the parent folder always have the last change date of the most recently changed file anywhere in the tree below the parent.

There are techniques where you could write your own script to sort of display a "DIR" like output where the date next to a folder could be found from all the child files, but that would be a custom script with special reporting logic, there's no way to automatically have Windows do that.

~bp

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Yes yes this looks very promising, Thank you!

Arman Khodabande

You're welcome!