Touch Window

The Touch Window appears when you select Touch from the Perform Menu or the Main Window’s toolbar for What to Perform. The Touch Window asks you for the date and time with which to touch files that you have designated in Folder(s) and File(s). NOTE that files in subfolders are touched too if you have selected Search Subfolders on the Main Window’s Options Menu or the Search Options toolbar. The Touch operation does not change the dates, times, or attributes of folders and subfolders. Only files are affected.

The following selections are in the Touch Window.

Use computer’s date Touch files with the computer’s date, which appears in the Touch Window.

Use this date Touch files with the date that you type into the date edit box.

Use computer’s time Touch files with the computer’s time, which appears in the Touch Window.

Use this time Touch files with the time that you type into the time edit box.

Touch each file’s A file on disk has three times, as indicated below. Choose one, two, or all three in order to touch files.

• Creation Time This is the time of creation. You may never need to touch it.
  
  
• Last-access Time This is when the file was last accessed.
  
  
• Last-modified Time This is the time of the file’s last modification. This is the time that is most commonly touched. This is the time that appears in Windows Explorer when you look at the details of files.
  
  

Change each file’s attributes Change the Read-only and Archive attributes of each file.

• Set Beside each attribute, Read-only and Archive, there is a checkmark box entitled “Set”. Click the checkmark on in the Set box to enable the changing of the attribute. Then click the attribute itself to turn it on or off. If the attribute is checkmarked, it will be turned on for each file, otherwise, off. If a Set box is not checkmarked, the corresponding attribute’s checkmark box is grayed out and disabled, indicating that the attribute will not be set.
  
  
• Read-only Checkmark this to set the Read-only attribute on. A file that is read-only can be read but not deleted or changed. If this is not checkmarked, the Read-only attribute is turned off, and the file may be read, changed, or deleted. NOTE that if you change a file’s attribute to read-only, you can not touch it too. Read-only files can not be changed. Therefore, if you want to touch files and make them read only, touch them first, then make them read only.
  
  
• Archive Checkmark this to set the Archive attribute on. If this is not checkmarked, the Archive attribute is turned off. Various programs that copy and back up files use the Archive attribute.