Great thanks again for all the help much appreciated!
> On 15 Mar 2016, at 9:21 AM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: > > >> On Mar 14, 2016, at 6:11 PM, Rick C. <rickcort...@gmail.com >> <mailto:rickcort...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> 2. NSURLContentAccessDateKey returns the current date like mentioned here - >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13914600/get-the-real-last-opened-date >> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13914600/get-the-real-last-opened-date> >> 3. The same problem with st_atimespec it returns the current date > > The thread you linked to doesn’t say the _current_ date, it says "very > strange dates, usually near 3:00-3:30 AM, today or yesterday”. That’s > probably the last time the file was scanned by some system daemon like the > Spotlight indexer or Time Machine, as I said in my previous reply. > >> So from what I see there is no real alternative to kMDItemLastUsedDate if >> that value is missing. Additional thoughts? > > > It sounds like what you want is a high level “last time this file was opened > in a GUI application by a user command” property, which isn’t something the > filesystem knows anything about. Higher-level frameworks seem to update > kMDItemLastUsedDate to implement this. If that data is lost, I don’t think > you have an alternative. > > —Jens _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
