Program to touch file dates? - HxC

[Gryzor]

Hello guys,
A while ago I had found a program that touched the dates in a list of files so that devices, such as the HxCSDFE could display them in alphanumerical order (instead of the silly date order). Anyone remembers which one it was? I think it had been mentioned here, too...

[Bryce]

There's a program that does that called NVC that you can get here: http://sio2sd.gucio.pl/wiki/SoftwarePC_en

I haven't tried it myself, but it looks well written, might be worth a try.

Bryce.

[Gryzor]

Ahhh not NVC but DriveSort, on the same page! Cool, time I used it again... thanks mate1

PS NVC sounds interesting, too...

[norecess]

What I do with the HXC, while it's not touching dates I admit, is to use folders. In the root, I have GAMES, DEMOS, DISKMAGS, whatever... and as children of those roots, I have A-D, E-G, etc..

[Bryce]

So do I, but you still end up having all the files in Games\A or whatever in the wrong order. In some "Letter Directories" I have 50 files, not alphabetically sorted. Murphys Law tells me it will be the second last file, but it still takes ages to find things sometimes.

Bryce.

[norecess]

Actually, sorting could be done under the Manager. The problem is, it would implies to get through all FAT entries for a specified folder, and I'm sure it would not be appreciated to wait something like 10 seconds to get into a large folder.

[Gryzor]

Bryce is right, I hade lots of dirs myself (of course) but their contents are all over the place as I keep adding images.

@Norecess: yeah, we've discussed this before... but, here's an idea: maybe you could add a routine to touch the dates from within the manager that is only run when the user selects it instead of every time?

[Edit] nahhh I just realised this probably wouldn't work; I was thinking of the SD as external storage, which is not what it is for the system...

[Nich]

Ahhh not NVC but DriveSort, on the same page! Cool, time I used it again... thanks mate1

I use DriveSort as well to sort files on SD cards. It's a small but very useful tool indeed.