I made some small tweaks to the export script, so it doesn't try to open the File Explorer directory following being run and so the temp VBS script is created in the standard Temp directory. Only caveat is the VBS script doesn't handle various special characters in paths, so sometimes I have to rename the files first or move them to a different directory temporarily. Format string: $if2(%last_file_create_datetime%,%_file_create_datetime%).I personally also like to preserve the date created in the file itself, even though the VBS script doesn't restore that, using: Or you could just leave the file as-is since you now have preserved the original timestamp in the file itself. This action creates the date modified custom tag that can then be used by the export script to apply the original timestamp. Format string: $if2(%last_file_mod_datetime%,%_file_mod_datetime%).It can also apply these in batch (ie: multiple files at once). Then if you want to restore the date modified timestamps back to the file itself use DetlevD's Mp3Tag export script which creates and runs a temporary VBS script.You first have to store the original file's date modified timestamp to a custom tag in the file itself, using a custom Mp3Tag action of your making.The way I've been preserving original file timestamps for years, in case of accidental timestamp updates (eg: if another program modifies the timestamp such as foobar2000 when adding ReplayGain to MP3 files*) is a system the marvelous user DetlevD created years ago. I have Foobar2000 in the mix, which is also capable of updating tags in audio files. Have I got some setting wrong? Am I doing something wrong? Does anybody else see this / not see this? What do other people do to keep multiple deployments synced (I resort to copying the whole lot at times, which is lengthy and not useful if there have been alterations in more than one place)? If I turn on timestamp updates, MP3Tag seems to "touch" files even if I accidentally double click a field in the listing, thus opening it for edit. If I turn off timestamp updates in MP3Tag, I can't identify updated files by their timestamp. I could probably write a batch process to do it, just not got around to that yet (note to self). It ought to be possible to use the Archive flag, but Windows doesn't make it very easy to copy according to whether that flag is set. I have a master library on my main PC which I then sync to multiple other locations, and may have to sync back as well, but I have difficulty identifying which files need to be synced.
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