[m100]

I recently moved all the existing nebula recording files from one drive to another in preparation for moving from Win2K to XP.

Now, when looking at the recordings list (main menu-pvr-tv recordings) the last few that were directly recorded on this drive are in chronological order, the ones moved from the previous drive are in reverse alpha order.

The file dates as viewed in windows explorer are correct, and a sort on date gives me the order I would have expected - but explorer is looking at the modified field - I'm using NTFS.

DigiTV seems to be picking up the file created date rather than the modified date, which is the date the file was copied over.

Is there any way to fix this?

[MikeC]

Last time I had this, I found a program on the internet to manually fix each file by setting the Create date (bit of a pain really). Sorry, can't remember the name of it, but hopefully Google should be your friend.

I did try to write a Delphi program to simply process and fix all files in a directory, but could only find example code to change the modified date

HTH

[m100]

Thanks, I'll have a look for a suitable utility.

Thinking about it since I might have come up with a no frills solution at least to the order if not the date.

I have over 500 files to modify, I strongly suspect a sort on date and then a copy past to the new drive would have kept them in the right order but explorer took them in alpha order (or maybe in reverse alpha)

so my solution (untested) is sort on modified date in explorer

select contiguous batches of say 50 files from the oldest to the newest

copy paste them back to the existing directory

once completed, delete the original files

rename the copies (File Renamer basic does this fine) to remove the "Copy of " from the file.

repeat for the other batches until finished.

[rahewitt]

[MikeC]

I decided to have a another go at my program, and appear to have got it to work.

I have just run it on my recordings folder & it has fixed some I had which were wrong.
The program simply copies the Modified Date to the Create Date of all*.mpg files.

I have put it onto rapidshare here: [removed - see next post]

Un-zip and run the program. Browse to your Recordings folder and then Go.

DigiTV needs to be re-started to pick up the revised dates.

Pls enjoy at your own risk

[beardedwonder]

Hope you don't mind but i added the file so there's no download limit.

[MikeC]

[m100]

Thanks Mike C, just given it a go and it's fixed the problem, extremely quickly - maybe too quickly as if I could make a small criticism there is no visual confirmation that the process has been completed other than looking at the file properties themselves or seeing no activity in task manager, or I'd guess in trying to open a new directory and finding the dialog blocked.