sort by download date on zip/rar on mac? 44 Responses

Last post: 2 years ago | Thread started: Feb 4, 10, 9:28 p.m.

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• lvl_13

  This is probably a stupid question, but is there any way to sort by the date downloaded with rar/zip etc. files? especially compressed files that have different names compared to the extracted version?

  i always tend to name my zip files as smpp.zip or whatever. basically the abbreviation of the real file (ie. sample_motion_product_pan).

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• BattleAxe

  on a Mac control click in the folder view -> view options-> check date modified -> then just sort by that column

  

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  Dog-earFeb 4, 10, 9:47 p.m. – Permalink

• lvl_13

  thanks BallteAxe, but i already know that. this is where the problem is created.

  the compressed file downloaded tells you when it was downloaded...however, unziping this file will only give you the date that the file was compressed. and that just doesn't help searching at all. in fact it just results in a lot of seemingly pointless emails :\

  

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  Dog-earFeb 4, 10, 9:58 p.m. – Permalink

• airey

  so if i get this correct, you really need some code to know when a file link was last clicked and then organise the files by that?

  • well, not really a code. i just thought there would be a way to sort by download date after unarchived function within OSX– lvl_13

  

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  Dog-earFeb 4, 10, 10:10 p.m. – Permalink

• raf

  I know the problem. I wonder if there are unpackers that append new dates.

  • good question. and also probably the ultimate answer...although that would suck if we were limited to certain progs to do this– lvl_131/2

    programs to do such a thing.– lvl_132/2

  

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  Dog-earFeb 4, 10, 10:10 p.m. – Permalink