General • Date Modified timestamp doesn't get updated for some files?

Are there sometimes when Everything doesn't automatically update a Date Modified timestamp on a file, or is somehow prevented from doing so?

I just opened a .txt file from an Everything results list, made an edit, saved the file, then returned to the Everything results list. The Date Modified timestamp had been updated.

But I had a different experience with another file I was trying to monitor in Everything. It was a database file in Microsoft Access format, in a Dropbox folder. There is some kind of lock file associated with it when it's open, I think it has an .ldb extension. Anyway, when I modified this database, Everything did not update the Date Modified timestamp accordingly. However, when I right-clicked on the file in Everything and brought up the Properties dialog, the Properties dialog did show the correct new timestamp. So did Windows File Explorer.

So I don't know if it's a Dropbox thing, a "locked file" thing, or an Access thing, but Everything didn't update the Date Modified when the file was modified, even though Everything seems to update this timestamp in most cases.

Statistics: Posted by jimspoon — Wed Feb 26, 2025 2:41 pm

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