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Folder modification dates with option -B (tested on Mac OS)

Open cameo69 opened this issue 3 years ago • 0 comments

I recently run jdupes -X size+:100M -B -r . within a folder to deduplicate some larger files. From the gained free space on the drive I assume it worked ok.

However, I found that folders in which the deduplicated files resided got the current timestamp. I did not like that and changed it; I compared the actual folder with a recent backup and changed the modification timestamps of the folders to match the timestamps in the backup, but this was extra effort (albeit small because this is easy with Beyond Compare).

Is there a way to have jdupes retain the timestamps also for the parent folder of the deduplicated files? If not yet, can this be added as a feature request?

cameo69 avatar Sep 17 '21 08:09 cameo69