Set Multiple File Date/Times

You can open this tool from either the Start Page or the Compare Folders window.  

1.Open the tool from the Start Page

Press the Change date/times button while in Tools mode. The tool will appear with no files listed.

2.Open the tool from the Compare Folders window

Select multiple files from a Comparison Result Pane then choose "Change date/times of multiple files" from either the File menu, the Tools toolbar button drop-down, or the right-click context menu.  The  tool will appear with all the selected items listed.

When the tool opens up, it may list file names or it may be empty.  This depends on how you arrived here.  (See the discussion above.)  If the list is empty, you'll need to add some files to the list.

 
To add files to the list, click on the three dots three dots to the upper right of the list.  

This will open up a Select Files window you can select files from.

Select all files whose date/time you want to change and press OK on the Select Files window.  The tool adds the selected files to the list.

 
To change the date/times of the listed files, specify which of the three date/times to change, enter the new date & time values,  and apply the changes.

Step 1: Specify which of the three dates you want to change

To specify which of the three date/times (created/modified/accessed) to change, place a check in the corresponding box. The tool will change only the date types you specify.

For example, if you want to change only the Created date/time, place a check in the "Change created date" box and remove the check from the other two.

Note that only the date/time fields for the date types (created/modified/accessed) you choose are editable.

Step 2: Enter the new date & time values

You must supply the tool with the new date times values you want to use. You can enter the new date/time values in three ways:

1.Manually enter the new values in the date/time fields

To manually enter a new value, click into each date/time component (month, day, year, hour, minute, second, & AM/PM) and type in a new value. You may enter different date/time values for each of the date types or you may enter the same value into all three.

For example, in the date time below, the user has clicked the year component and changed the value from “2018” to “2019”.

2.Select a file from the list

When you click on a file in the list, the tool populates the three date/time fields with values taken from the file.  The example below shows the date/times from the selected “desktop.ini” file.

3.Press the Current Date/Time button

Pressing the Current Date/Time button will populate the three date fields with the date/ & time right now.

Step 3: Apply the new date & time values

Press the Change button to apply the new date/time values for the chosen date types (created/modified/accessed) to all the listed files.