How to Change File and Folder Date & Time Attributes Via the Command Line

Published: 16 April 2022
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If you need to change the date created, modified or accessed attribute of a file or folder, you can do so using PowerShell with some simple commands. You can even change the date and time attributes for all files within a folder with one command.

Here are the notes from the video.

DATE CREATED
(Get-Item "PathToItem").CreationTime=("15 January 2022 10:00:00")

SAMPLE
(Get-Item "C:\demo\File1.txt").CreationTime=("15 January 2022 10:00:00")

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DATE MODIFIED
(Get-Item "PathToItem").LastWriteTime=("16 January 2022 11:00:00")

SAMPLE
(Get-Item "C:\demo\File2.txt").LastWriteTime=("16 January 2022 11:00:00")

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DATE ACCESSED
(Get-Item "PathToItem").LastAccessTime=("17 January 2022 12:00:00")

SAMPLE
(Get-Item "C:\demo\File3.txt").LastAccessTime=("17 January 2022 12:00:00")

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If date accessed is not changing then run
fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 0

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CHANGE ATTRIBUTES FOR ALL FILES IN A FOLDER
Get-ChildItem -force PathToItem * | ForEach-Object{$_.CreationTime = ("15 January 2022 10:00:00")}
Get-ChildItem -force PathToItem * | ForEach-Object{$_.LastWriteTime = ("15 January 2022 10:00:00")}
Get-ChildItem -force PathToItem * | ForEach-Object{$_.LastAccessTime = ("15 January 2022 10:00:00")}

SAMPLE
Get-ChildItem -force C:\demo\Folder1 * | ForEach-Object{$_.CreationTime = ("15 January 2022 10:00:00")}

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