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See, the problem is that in Java, we can get lastmodified date by filename.lastModified() . But in Windows, what is happening is that whenever a file is modifed, only that file's date and time are getting modified, not the whole folder's. So I want to know when was the last time even one single file was modified in that folder, using Java? Find the latest (largest) lastModified() in the directory's files , or if there are none use the directory's itself: public static Date getLastModified(File directory) { File[] files = directory.listFiles(); if (files.length == 0) return new Date(directory

Does anyone know if it is possible to directly edit file metadata on OS X. Specifically in perl. The parameter I'm specifically trying to change is kMDItemFSLabel (The color of the file). I've had a search around and I can't seem to find a way to do this without using a module such as Mac::Glue or an external application (Finder). The kMDItemFSLabel attribute is a property of the Finder. You need to use a way to communicate with the Finder to change its data. As far as I know, there is no bit you can twiddle with Perl to change the Finder's data without going through the Finder. There are

I'd like to be able to detect whether an audio file has embedded album art and, if not, add album art to that file. I'm using mutagen 1) Detecting album art. Is there a simpler method than this pseudo code: from mutagen import File audio = File('music.ext') test each of audio.pictures, audio['covr'] and audio['APIC:'] if doesn't raise an exception and isn't None, we found album art 2) I found this for embedding album art into an mp3 file: How do you embed album art into an MP3 using Python? How do I embed album art into other formats? EDIT: embed mp4 audio = MP4(filename) data = open(albumart,

In Windows 7 I can add meta data to files for example title, rating and so on. Where is this meta data stored exactly? For NTFS they may use alternate data streams but I this meta data also happen to work in FAT32, so how ho they do it? Is there an API to make use of this feature? Starting with Windows Vista, metadata is now stored inside the file itself. Windows stores this in COM Structured storage . The implementation is either in the file itself (Office docs support this, or any file format that supports structured storage), or in NTFS itself. The API is available here: Structured Storage

I have a directory in all_directories, but I need to find out what permissions are associated with it, i.e. what has been granted on it? This should give you the roles, users and permissions granted on a directory: SELECT * FROM all_tab_privs WHERE table_name = 'your_directory'; --> needs to be upper case And yes, it IS in the all_TAB_privs view ;-) A better name for that view would be something like "ALL_OBJECT_PRIVS", since it also includes PL/SQL objects and their execute permissions as well. You can see all the privileges for all directories wit the following SELECT * from all_tab_privs

Rather than add Pin It buttons through our site, I would like to simply control what images show up in Pinterest's "Find Image" results if a user decides to pin one of our URLs. As of now, "Find Images" allows the user to scroll through the images it finds on the page so they can select which image to pin. The "found" images start with the first jpg in the html file, I'm assuming (could that be a bad assumption??). On our site, this forces a user to scroll through about 15 navigation and promotion images before arriving at the featured product image. Is there any way to specify this image to