How to NOT change date on rename ?

[Alain Terrieur]

Hi guys,

How to avoid that files (or folder) have the date modified when renaming ?
The easy rename by slow double click.

Cheers.

[Horst]

Hi guys,

How to avoid that files (or folder) have the date modified when renaming ?
The easy rename by slow double click.

Cheers.

That doesn't change any date for me.

[Alain Terrieur]

Crazy...
It's starting again...

Renamed the file:



And the folder's date changed:



So which settings ?
Cheers.

[Horst]

Crazy...
It's starting again...

Renamed the file:



And the folder's date changed:



So which settings ?
Cheers.

If you change files in a folder Windows will always update the time stamp of the containing folder.

[highend]

If you don't like that behavior, turn it off.

Open an elevated command prompt and execute this:
fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 1

[Alain Terrieur]

If you change files in a folder Windows will always update the time stamp of the containing folder.

Never noticed before...
Maybe because I'm doing it straight away.
Now, as my SSD crashed, I'm working on old restored files...
Thanks.

[Horst]

If you don't like that behavior, turn it off.

Open an elevated command prompt and execute this:
fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 1

That will not disable the folder date changes, it can't be prevented.
It only prevents the last access date change which is on larger NTFS volumes disabled by default.