My computer’s filesystem stores several “date” metadata fields for each file, such as “date created” and “date modified”, so I don’t have to manually manage such things in the file name. I can simply sort by recently modified, recently created, etc.
And those can change - it’s a local file system reference.
Windows historically has been really bad about this.
I have thousands of files in windows where the created date is actually last modified date - because the local file system updates on copy/move, or it gets altered by email/transfer systems, etc.
Really, would I have come up with my own naming system if the last mod and create dates were effective?
I have thousands of photos where the file system create time is years different than the metadata create time (what the camera stamped).
My computer’s filesystem stores several “date” metadata fields for each file, such as “date created” and “date modified”, so I don’t have to manually manage such things in the file name. I can simply sort by recently modified, recently created, etc.
And those can change - it’s a local file system reference.
Windows historically has been really bad about this.
I have thousands of files in windows where the created date is actually last modified date - because the local file system updates on copy/move, or it gets altered by email/transfer systems, etc.
Really, would I have come up with my own naming system if the last mod and create dates were effective?
I have thousands of photos where the file system create time is years different than the metadata create time (what the camera stamped).