Re: Changing file & directory names

FROM : Dean Snyder
DATE : Sun Jul 02 03:39:52 2006

I wrote at 3:57 PM on Saturday, July 1, 2006:

>So you're saying that there is no new file creation going on with
>NSFileManager movePath? Then why do both the created and modified dates
>of the just "moved" file equal the time of "moving" and not, for
>example, the "real" created time?


I need to correct this.

If I change the contents of the file and save it (using NSTextView
writeRTFDToFile), but do not rename/move the file, then both the
creation date and the modification date are changed to reflect the time
the file was saved. That is clearly wrong behavior - only the
modification date should be changed.

If I rename/move the file (using NSFileManager movePath) without
altering the contents of the file, the creation and modification date
remain unchanged.


Dean A. Snyder

Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project
Computer Science Department, Whiting School of Engineering
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Johns Hopkins University
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