Let’s see some methods to change the created date, modified date, or last accessed date of files in this article.
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Change File or Folder Timestamp<\/strong><\/p>\n To change the file date using PowerShell, here are the commands you need to run:<\/p>\n Change the creation date\/timestamp of a file named log1.txt:<\/strong><\/p>\n Change the last write date\/timestamp of a file named log1.txt:<\/strong><\/p>\n Change the last accessed date\/timestamp of a file named log1.txt:<\/strong><\/p>\n Change the date\/timestamp of all files in a folder named Test:<\/strong><\/p>\n To change the timestamp of all files in a folder, use the following syntax:<\/p>\n Note that the above command changes the timestamp for every file and subfolder in a folder. To apply the change only for files (i.e., exclude sub-folders), use this syntax:<\/p>\n Change the last write date\/timestamp of a “Folder”<\/strong><\/p>\n To view the date modified, date created, and date last written data for all files in a folder, use the following command-line syntax:<\/p>\n (or)<\/p>\n You’ll see an output like this:<\/p>\n Using NirCmd<\/a>, a multi-purpose command-line tool from Nirsoft.net, you can change the file date and timestamp.<\/p>\n Here is the command-line syntax to change the file timestamp using NirCmd:<\/p>\n To change the timestamp of all text files in a folder, here’s the command-line syntax:<\/p>\n BulkFileChanger<\/a> is another useful tool from Nirsoft.net that can modify the created, modified, or accessed time of one or multiple files. It can also change the file attributes (Read-Only, Hidden, System) en masse<\/em>.<\/p>\n Start BulkFileChanger and add the files into it. When adding files to the list, you can choose to add files in sub-folders and set the recursion level accordingly.<\/p>\n Select all files, and click Change Time\/Attributes<\/strong> from the Action<\/strong> menu.<\/p>\n You may want to uncheck the Time is specified in GMT<\/strong> first, as most of us prefer inputting the local time rather than the GMT.<\/p>\n Input the Created, Modified, or Accessed date\/time. To fill up the current time in all the fields, click on the Fill Current Time<\/strong> button below.<\/p>\n For images taken from a camera, the EXIF or the metadata field contains the Date taken<\/strong> field, which is separate from NTFS’s date modified\/created data. You can view the EXIF data from the JPG file’s properties or using the ExifDataView<\/strong> utility from Nirsoft.net.<\/p>\n That said, BulkFileChanger also allows you to change the Date Taken<\/strong> timestamp (EXIF metadata). To change the date metadata, click on the No Change<\/strong> button, and select the appropriate option.<\/p>\n The EXIF – Generated Time<\/strong> corresponds to the Date Taken metadata, and this field is displayed under the Date<\/strong> column of File Explorer. Also, many programs use this value as the official date\/time of the picture.<\/p>\n Note that you can change the EXIF date of a camera image only if the date\/time values already exist inside the .jpg files. BulkFileChanger cannot add new fields into the EXIF data.<\/em><\/p>\n And, optionally, you can also copy the timestamp from Modified, Created, Accessed, EXIT – Generated Time, EXIT – Stored Time, or the EXIT – Modified Time and apply the same to other date fields automatically.<\/p>\n Command-line support<\/strong><\/p>\n BulkFileChanger also supports command-line operations so that you don’t have to open the GUI every time. Check out BulkFileChanger<\/a> homepage for command-line help\/the list of arguments supported.<\/p>\n Attribute Changer is an excellent freeware program that can do the following:<\/p>\n\n
Change File Creation, Last Accessed or Modified Date<\/h2>\n
<\/a>Using PowerShell<\/h3>\n
(Get-Item \"D:\\Test\\log1.txt\").CreationTime=(\"3 August 2019 17:00:00\")<\/pre>\n
(Get-Item \"D:\\Test\\log1.txt\").LastWriteTime=(\"3 August 2019 17:10:00\")<\/pre>\n
(Get-Item \"D:\\Test\\log1.txt\").LastAccessTime=(\"3 August 2019 17:10:00\")<\/pre>\n
Get-ChildItem -force d:\\test\\ * | ForEach-Object{$_.CreationTime = (\"3 August 2019 17:00:00\")}\r\nGet-ChildItem -force d:\\test\\ * | ForEach-Object{$_.LastWriteTime = (\"3 August 2019 17:10:00\")}\r\nGet-ChildItem -force d:\\test\\ * | ForEach-Object{$_.LastAccessTime = (\"3 August 2019 17:10:00\")}<\/pre>\nGet-ChildItem -force d:\\test\\ * | Where-Object {! $_.PSIsContainer} | ForEach-Object{$_.CreationTime = (\"3 August 2019 17:00:00\")}\r\nGet-ChildItem -force d:\\test\\ * | Where-Object {! $_.PSIsContainer} | ForEach-Object{$_.LastWriteTime = (\"3 August 2019 17:10:00\")}\r\nGet-ChildItem -force d:\\test\\ * | Where-Object {! $_.PSIsContainer} | ForEach-Object{$_.LastAccessTime = (\"3 August 2019 17:10:00\")}<\/pre>\n(Get-Item \"D:\\Test\\\").LastWriteTime=(\"3 August 2019 17:00:00\")<\/pre>\n
View Created, Modified, and Last accessed date of all files in a folder<\/h4>\n
Get-ChildItem -force \"D:\\Test\\\" | Select-Object Name, CreationTime, LastWriteTime, LastAccessTime<\/pre>\n
foreach ($objFile in Get-ChildItem \"D:\\Test\\*.*\") { '\"' + $objFile.Name + '\" | ' + $objFile.CreationTime + ' | ' + $objFile.LastWriteTime + ' | ' + $objFile.LastAccessTime}<\/pre>\n\"log1.txt\" | 08\/03\/2019 17:00:00 | 08\/03\/2019 17:10:00 | 08\/03\/2019 17:10:00\r\n\"log2.txt\" | 08\/03\/2019 17:00:00 | 08\/03\/2019 17:10:00 | 08\/03\/2019 17:10:00\r\n\"log3.txt\" | 08\/03\/2019 17:00:00 | 08\/03\/2019 17:10:00 | 08\/03\/2019 17:10:00\r\n\"log4.txt\" | 08\/03\/2019 17:00:00 | 08\/03\/2019 17:10:00 | 08\/03\/2019 17:10:00<\/pre>\n
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\n<\/a>Using NirCmd from Nirsoft<\/h3>\n
nircmd.exe setfiletime [filename or wildcard] [Created Date] {Modified Date} {Accessed Date}<\/pre>\n\n
dd-mm-yyyy hh:mm:ss<\/code>“.<\/li>\n\"now\"<\/code> as the date parameter, the current date and time will be used.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nExamples<\/h4>\n
nircmd.exe setfiletime \"d:\\test\\log1.txt\" \"03\/08\/2019 17:00:00\" \"\" \"03\/08\/2019 17:10:00\"\r\nnircmd.exe setfiletime \"d:\\test\\log2.txt\" now now now\r\nnircmd.exe setfiletime \"d:\\test\\log3.txt\" now \"\" now\r\nnircmd.exe setfiletime \"d:\\test\\log4.txt\" \"03\/08\/2019 17:00:00\" \"03\/08\/2019 17:10:00\" now<\/pre>\n
nircmd.exe setfiletime \"d:\\test\\*.txt\" \"03\/08\/2019 17:00:00\" \"03\/08\/2019 17:10:00\" \"03\/08\/2019 17:10:00\"<\/pre>\n
\n<\/a>Using BulkFileChanger from Nirsoft<\/h3>\n
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\n<\/a>Attribute Changer<\/h3>\n
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