dangel 8 Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 (edited) NB: Current version is 1.1 (scroll down) I've noticed with the new MediaBrowser the folders in my 'films' folders end up with current dates on them as mediabrowser presumably modifies them as it scans the movie when you add it. This is new to MB3 AFAIK since I had not seen this behaviour before - it's also a bit of a problem for me in that I then lose visibility in Windows explorer as to when the film was added making copying the collection from a particular date onwards problematic. So i've written a small tool that queries the added date that MB3 stores in it's XML configuration and pushes the original date/time back onto it's parent folder. This is working well and I was wondering if it's worth posting it for others once I've cleaned it up and added an easier to use GUI to it (functionally it works fine). No slight to MB3 it's not doing anything terrible it's just caused an issue for me. Edited February 14, 2014 by dangel 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangel 8 Posted February 14, 2014 Author Share Posted February 14, 2014 (edited) You can download the tool from here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9r7se2gkbuwscti/TSDateAdded.rar This is version 1.0 and has a simple GUI: Note: because of the way that Windows works this tool does need to have admin rights (it'll request them when it runs) to modify folder attributes. Edited February 14, 2014 by dangel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef 3745 Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 Very nice indeed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangel 8 Posted February 14, 2014 Author Share Posted February 14, 2014 Thinking about having this driven from the command line entirely so that it can be scheduled to run periodically.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangel 8 Posted February 14, 2014 Author Share Posted February 14, 2014 (edited) Updated to 1.1: /AutoStart on the command line will make the tool scan the folder immediately /AutoClose on the command line will make the tool close once the scan is complete (of course you must pass /Folder:"<some folder>" to make use of this) This allows you to run the tool on a schedule (if required). Edited February 14, 2014 by dangel 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robsch 42 Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 Great tool. Thanks for your work! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangel 8 Posted February 26, 2014 Author Share Posted February 26, 2014 You're welcome - wasn't sure if anyone else needed this but apparently they do If you've any suggestions feel free to post them here but atm i'm pretty happy with this 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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