7-Zip Filedate Resetter

In my respect, 7-Zip is the best file compressor ever.

It is efficient, can be operated with a multitude of parameters at a command line and it's free.

Unfortunately, with every update of an archive, 7-Zip also updates the archive's file date even when the contents itself is unchanged.

This is disturbing when you use 7-Zip as a simple, automated  backup-tool, to build archives, that are later transferred via FTP.

As the FTP client finds a file with a later file date, it will transfer it unnecessarily when the contents is actually unchanged.

7zDateReset is a standalone command line tool which sets the date of the 7-Zip archive to the date of the latest contained file (=default). Alternativly it can set archive date to that of the oldest contained file.

Usage: Call with either archive or folder name to change either a single archive or all .7z archives in one folder. If date should be set to that of oldest contained file, state "/oldest" as 2nd parameter.

Checks parameter for correctness and returns errorlevel codes.

No setup necessary, please check readme.txt for different installation procedures on 32- and 64-bit systems!

Freeware / Version 2.1.2 / download size: 532 kB

Steffen Wagner © 2012