Touch on copy

[flowerman]

I've been using Beyond Compare for many years, and it truely is a wonderful product. However I have finally found a situation that I can't seem to get round.

I need to automatically touch files with the current date and time when they are copied using beyond compare. I can't find an option to do this and I was wondering if it is possible with somekind of script or macro.

Or even better, if this could be included as an option in future builds. :)

Flowerman

[Chris]

Beyond Compare will always try to preserve timestamps on copy, there isn't a way to avoid this in the current version.

If you use a script for your copy/sync, it is possible to use the scripting "touch" command to set timestamps to the current system time after you copy the files.

I would like this feature as well. I am trying to use BC to copy a network mounted source code tree into a local working directory for building. I need to touch files as I update them in the working directory so that incremental build dependencies work correctly. I would prefer not to use use a script because the source tree has about 30K files in it and there's a huge performance advantage to using a long running BC session that monitors file updates in the background. It seems like touch on copy would be any easy feature....

[Chris]

Thanks for the reminder. We'll consider this for the future, but it still isn't a supported feature in Beyond Compare 2.5.2.