“Date last saved”

[Miguel Faber]

Is there a way to use “Date last saved”, instead of "File Modified Date" sorting folders and files? Like you can choose in Windows (by right-clicking the column headers in Windows Explorer, and (maybe) click on “More…”, then choose “Date last saved” to show this column).

Its because Google drive is constantly changing the time stamps of the synchronized folder and everything ends up very red, I'd love to be able to use the color-code while using Google Drive.

Any ideas?

[Milos Paripovic]

I'll consider adding that but it is google who'd need to fix it. If I add it, it will be slow because that is not an actual file property, plus Windows reference says "may return an inaccurate value"

[Miguel Faber]

Thanks a lot for your reply and the best file manager ever!! Google says it's not their fault, but a Windows' thing. I think I found another solution, though, if someone is interested. Using this tool to reset the metadata after Google Drive has screwed it up: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/folder_time_update.html

Once in a while the reset has to be redone, not perfect at all, but better than nothing.

[Milos Paripovic]

Thank you, and thanks for sharing your find for that tool - those guys have a tool for everything. Yes, it could be Windows as it is full of bad decisions related to filesystem, like a file can be "modified" before it is "created", and "last access" date being useless and never updated on last access, saving file changes not updating "modified" date, and so on. I'll keep on thinking what can be done so it makes more sense.