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<blockquote data-quote="emilycurious" data-source="post: 1745426" data-attributes="member: 361999">Hi,I need to write an applescript to re-date folder(s) to the latest date of the folder contents.(Right, now I open a folder, open a file in there, make no changes and/or do not save, so the file modification date does not change, but the folder mod date does. I need it to show the same date as the last modified file.)I don't know how to do any of this, but I'll work it out!However, I have a logic problem that I can't work out.So, I need the script to cycle through all the files in a folder looking at their modification dates, and then if file B is older than file A I want to ignore it an go to file C, and if that file date is more recent than A, I want to keep C and ignore A.But, how do I get the first instance into the loop? I figured I need a known very old start date, say set compareDate to 01/01/01, but then, how do I leave that out of the loop for the second comparison?Am I explaining this well enough?(10.12.2)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="emilycurious, post: 1745426, member: 361999"] Hi, I need to write an applescript to re-date folder(s) to the latest date of the folder contents. (Right, now I open a folder, open a file in there, make no changes and/or do not save, so the file modification date does not change, but the folder mod date does. I need it to show the same date as the last modified file.) I don't know how to do any of this, but I'll work it out! However, I have a logic problem that I can't work out. So, I need the script to cycle through all the files in a folder looking at their modification dates, and then if file B is older than file A I want to ignore it an go to file C, and if that file date is more recent than A, I want to keep C and ignore A. But, how do I get the first instance into the loop? I figured I need a known very old start date, say set compareDate to 01/01/01, but then, how do I leave that out of the loop for the second comparison? Am I explaining this well enough? (10.12.2) [/QUOTE]

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