Last Modified Folders

[HonestAbe7]

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Feature description

I would like the option to have folders showing when they were last modified. I see I can do it for files itself but no folders.

Why do you want this feature?

If I am sorting something out in a directory, I need to know what was last modified and not.

This is extremely useful to see modified folders within a directory folder too if you have a podcast downloaded and trying to rename the files. That way you know which ones you renamed and which you didn't yet.

Here is an example from the app Cx File Explorer and this one showing the difference:

Additional information

No response

[Aga-C]

This should already work if you turn on sorting by last modified date. Probably it's a bug, so we'll need to find a cause:

• What Android version are you using?
• Does it work in internal storage?
• Have you turned off Keep old last-modified value at file operations in Settings?
• Are files you're modifying directly in those directories, or are they deeper in some subdirectories?

[HonestAbe7]

1. Android 10
2. Doesn't matter for internal and external storage for this.
3. I have NOT turned that setting off.
4. Some are just folders and some are subdirectories. But what I noticed was that the subdirectories are like that too within a folder.

[Aga-C]

@naveensingh Maybe you'll have an idea what to ask.

[naveensingh]

This should already work if you turn on sorting by last modified date.

@Aga-C It looks like it was intentionally disabled back in 2020: https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Commons/commit/db4bc46be08ef58f9168be593c34c51039de469b. I don't know why it was disabled, either it was a request by some users or it wasn't reliable enough.

The date view is hidden for directories regardless of the current view type: https://github.com/FossifyOrg/File-Manager/blob/666bfb6b5c4ffbc0d6e1b2ab76bc4bcda770262e/app/src/main/kotlin/org/fossify/filemanager/adapters/ItemsAdapter.kt#L877-L880

[HonestAbe7]

Can you enable this back? I think we could agree that this is a good feature? Thanks

[naveensingh]

Yes, next release.