How does the "accessed" date work?

[okumam]

I was hoping to use this for sorting by the last time I accessed some movies (like figure out what I watched and what I didn't watch), but it doesn't seem to work. I sort by access date then open a movie from the middle of the list that has a 2018 date. I am expecting that movie to move to the top and be updated with the current date, but the accessed date does not update. Am I missing something?

If this is not for seeing when you last opened a file, is there a way to track that in XYPlorer?

[Horst]

By default Date Accessed will not be updated in NTFS volumes.
Its wasting SDD life time and should only be enabled on Server systems.

[highend]

If this is not for seeing when you last opened a file, is there a way to track that in XYPlorer?

Possible? Sure. A custom file association (or a button) with a script that opens the selected item and tags it with the current date in conjunction with a custom column (again with a script), that reads and display that tag (the date)

[3ccentricity]

Can you make a script like that?

[highend]

E.g. the CFA entry:
{:Video}>::tagitems("ex16", now(), <pfaitem>); open <pfaitem>, "w";

And then you would only need to show the "Extra 16" column...

[3ccentricity]

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{:Video}>::tagitems("ex16", now(), <pfaitem>); open <pfaitem>, "w";

Sorry about this but I have no clue what to do when it comes to scripting so just to make my scenario clear I will tell you what I'm trying to accomplish. I want to open folders (containing manga images) with your code above (instead of videos) and I want to open it with my manga reading app which has the path:

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C:\Program Files\YACReader\YACReader.exe

I have no idea what a folder would be presented as within the code, for example:

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{:Video}>       {:Folder}>

Nor do I know how to add the open with argument, like is 1+1? XD:

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{:Folder}>::tagitems("ex16", now(), <pfaitem>); open <pfaitem>, "w"; C:\Program Files\YACReader\YACReader.exe

But if I can't adapt your code to work with folders than i'm outta luck.

[highend]

CFA doesn't track opening folders...

How will a script know that the folder that is opened contains "manga images"?
Do they have specific names?