I was experimenting with a disk fragmenter called DiskTrix. During the
install it said that Vista had turned off maintaining last access
date, and offered to turn it on. I was surprised to discover this was
a configurable feature.
Does anyone know how to control this without using DiskTrix. Vista
help does not seem to have anything on it.
I wrote some Java to set last access date, but often Windows ignores
me when I try to set the access date on directories. I have not yet
figured out why.

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>I was experimenting with a disk fragmenter called DiskTrix. During the
> install it said that Vista had turned off maintaining last access
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> me when I try to set the access date on directories. I have not yet
> figured out why.
A quick search leads to these MSDN pages.
I don't know if this will be helpful.
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/yos956>
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/nujsz>
JH
Roedy Green - 28 Oct 2007 15:54 GMT
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:17:12 -0400, "Jeff Higgins"
<oohiggins@yahoo.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
said :
>A quick search leads to these MSDN pages.
>I don't know if this will be helpful.
><http://preview.tinyurl.com/yos956>
><http://preview.tinyurl.com/nujsz>
What keywords did you use? I got a ton of irrelevant hits.
I have summarised this with a new entry in the glossary at
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/fsutil.html
I will post it as soon as I complete a Xenu broken link check.

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Roedy Green wrote on 27.10.2007 16:50:
> I was experimenting with a disk fragmenter called DiskTrix. During the
> install it said that Vista had turned off maintaining last access
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> me when I try to set the access date on directories. I have not yet
> figured out why.
And how does this question relate to Java (especially Java GUI)?
Lew - 28 Oct 2007 16:31 GMT
Roedy Green wrote on 27.10.2007 16:50:
>> I wrote some Java to set last access date, but often Windows ignores
>> me when I try to set the access date on directories. I have not yet
>> figured out why.
> And how does this question relate to Java (especially Java GUI)?
I think it was the part where he said,
>> I wrote some Java to set last access date, but often Windows ignores
>> me when I try to set the access date on directories. I have not yet
>> figured out why.
Windows being a GUI environment, maybe he associated that with the gui
newsgroup, but even if we stipulate that it's a little off topic, we can still
forgive such a truly minor transgression.

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Roedy Green - 28 Oct 2007 22:37 GMT
>Windows being a GUI environment,
that was just a plain mistake. I meant to post to
comp.lang.java.programmer.

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Roedy Green - 28 Oct 2007 16:33 GMT
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:20:44 +0100, Thomas Kellerer
<FJIFALSDGVAF@spammotel.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :
>And how does this question relate to Java (especially Java GUI)?
the link is tenuous. I wrote a Java utility to read and write last
access dates in Windows.

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