Are there instances where modification time is not supposed to change?

[Markus Lindholm]

Thanks.

With that setting off it worked as I expected.

Never occurred to me that an application could have the discretion
over whether to update the modification time or not.

Regards
Markus

On 22/01/07, Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> wrote:
> Markus Lindholm wrote:
> > Today I was updating the meta data for my music collection that's
> > encoded in flac. I was using easyTag version 1.99.13 to modify the
> > id tags.
> >
> > After I was done with the tags I wanted to backup the collection
> > with rsync. It was now that I noticed that it didn't backup some of
> > the files that I knew I had modified. I checked the size and time of
> > modification for the files and they were identical between source
> > and target, but the time wasn't today. So that was the reason rsync
> > hadn't backup those file.
> >
> > So I ran a test where I checked the time of modification for a flac
> > file, then opened it in easyTag and removed a single letter from a
> > single tag, saved the change. Checked the time of modification and
> > noticed that it hadn't changed, but the time of access had changed.
> > Opened up the flac file with another tag editor and verified that
> > the change I made with easyTag was actually there.
> >
> > Is this excepted behaviour?
>
> There's a setting in the easytag preferences (the file settings tab)
> that will preserve the modification time of the file who's tag you are
> editing.  There is also the ability to use padding in the tags to help
> avoid having to rewrite the entire file when a field is changed.
> Perhaps between those two settings your file's size and time weren't
> changed?
>
> I have padding enabled but not preserve the mod time FWIW.
>
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