On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 02:43:04 Laurence Harris wrote:
> The context is not relevant. What's relevant is that I wanted a test that
> would not involve any modifications on disk. Renaming and renaming back
> bumps the modification date of the parent folder,
Yes, unfortunately File Managers don't have true "rollback".
> which I don't want to do
> and don't need to do. I could save and restore that date, but I'd just
> rather not go down that road. I wrote something that tests the userAccess
> field and the locked bit and it seems to do what I need without modifying
> anything.
Ok. I'd also consider:
- volume software/hardware lock.
- files that reside on remote servers and that are opened (locally
or remotely): some systems (e.g. Win+NTFS) prohibit renaming opened
files.
Mike
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