On Mar 21, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Ron Fleckner wrote: > On 22/03/2010, at 10:01 AM, gMail.com wrote: > >> Hi, >> I cannot find a Cocoa API to set the "Attribute Modification Date" of a >> file. If there is a way, may you please let me know? >> >> In the meantime, on MacOS X 10.5.8, I have been trying to use setattrlist >> with ATTR_CMN_CHGTIME, unsuccessfully. And setattrlist returns 0, as >> everything went ok. While it is not ok. Even FSSetCatalogInfo with >> kFSCatInfoAttrMod doesn't work. I get the current date/time I call the API, >> not the date/time I have set. >> >> So my question is: >> Can I really set the ATTR_CMN_CHGTIME on MacOS X 10.5.8 or higher? >> >> Also, the man says that getattrlist and setattrlist don't work on all the >> volumes. So, how can I know whether I can call these APIs? >> >> >> Thanks >> -- >> Leonardo > > the Cocoa way, I suppose, is to use NSFileManager. Looks like you can use > setAttributes:ofItemAtPath:error: with an NSDate value for > NSFileModificationDate.
He's asking for the attribute modification date, not the (content) modification date attribute. That is, the last time the attributes of the file were changed, without necessarily changing the contents of the file. _______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
