Some background: I am using CrashPlan for Small Business version 8.5.0.466. Part of my backup set includes all of my music files. However, because the original Date Created and Date Modified file properties are important to me (for file integrity, audit, and sorting purposes), when I use MP3tag to u…

[image] gearFX: However, because the original Date Created and Date Modified file properties are important to me (for file integrity, audit, and sorting purposes), I suggest to rethink if this file dates are the correct way for "integrity, audit and sorting purposes". Maybe you introduce some…

[image] LyricsLover: I suggest to rethink if this file dates are the correct way for "integrity, audit and sorting purposes". Maybe you introduce some new tags for your files for all this special needs? Something like "Integrity-Date", "Audit-Date", "Sorting-Date" or whatever you want to name i…

[image] gearFX: ...and prefer that simple tag editing or adding album art preserve the Date Modified. But even this changes should modify the file size and CrashPlan's "metadata block provided by the OS". It is highly unlikely that a change inside the tags - especially the album art - let the…

Yes, major album art changes seem to change the file size, but I notice simple (textual) tag edits or additions do not (can't explain why). Here are some screenshots comparing file properties for 2 files that are identical except one has a blank Album tag and the other has the Album tag information…

Hmm, that might actually do the trick. But that feature request didn't get much traction since 2014. :frowning:

No. But you might take up the idea and configure a tool that modifies the date with a command line for the suggested utility.

How about setting Archive Flag on File when modifying it. Archive Bit is supposed to be used to be set on modification and reset after backup?

@MP3Freak_Peter thanks for the suggestion. I tried the archive, hidden, read flags and none worked (in getting the attention of the CrashPlan algorithm). Which is odd, because they claim it should: [image] Supported metadata Metadata is data about data. For example, when saving a file, …

I use "Attribute Changer" to bump the modification date one second: https://www.petges.lu/ It does the job, but it interrupts my workflow a little, so I sometimes forget to do it. Would be great if this could be done automatically within an Action group.

Tag changes aren't being detected by my backup software

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ohrenkino January 28, 2021, 7:25pm 6

That is due to padding.
See e.g. this thread on the idea to increase the time by a second or so which would keep the general idea but also modify the data noticeably.