Farbflash

Sonntag, 18 September 2011

Shell script to change Modification date of bundles on MacOSX

Mac Standalone applications created with Adobe Director 11 or later do not have the modification date of the day, the application was published. The reason is:

The bundle, which is a folder with a few never changing files and with your movie files, is copied from a template. It will always have the modification date from this template, as the folder itself is not changed.

The solution is to use the touch command line tool to change the modification date of the folder (what the Adobe engineers should have done in the first place...)

I made a simple shellscript in order to automate that tedious task. What it does is simply setting the modification date of the folder/app to the latest modification date of any contained file recursively.

Find it here:
http://www.farbflash.org/director/tools/synchFolderDate

or even better open your terminal and type the following:



cd ~/Desktop

curl http://www.farbflash.org/director/tools/synchFolderDate -O

sudo chmod 755 synchFolderDate

./synchFolderDate -h

In order to use it, type in your terminal:



./synchFolderDate

Instead of typing the you can just drag the folder/app into the terminal window, after the SPACE after "synchFolderDate"

You might also want to copy this script to one of the directories in your PATH in order to use it from anywhere inthe filesystem.

UPDATE:
I made a droppable application out of the above script. You can now just drag and drop folders onto that application. Download it here: http://www.farbflash.org/director/tools/synchFolderDate.cpgz and unstuff it by doubleclicking it.

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