Looking for a bulk file date utility

Hi All,

A new customer called that is recovering from a ransonware
attack. He now has thousands of files with the wrong date
on them. He needs all the dates set back to the original.

He has come up with a away to see the creation date and
set it back, but only one at a time.

Anyone know of a utility to do this in bulk?

Many thanks,
-T

On 16/10/2019 19:40, T for Troll aka "Rogue Trader" wrote:


Anyone know of a utility to do this in bulk?



Yes. How much are you paying for the answer and suggestion? Surely, you
can recharge this to your stupid clients for hiring you in the fist place.





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On 16/10/2019 19:40:40, T wrote:
Hi All,

A new customer called that is recovering from a ransonware
attack. He now has thousands of files with the wrong date
on them. He needs all the dates set back to the original.

He has come up with a away to see the creation date and
set it back, but only one at a time.

Anyone know of a utility to do this in bulk?

Many thanks,
-T

Bulk Rename Utility
https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php

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T wrote:
Hi All,

A new customer called that is recovering from a ransonware
attack. He now has thousands of files with the wrong date
on them. He needs all the dates set back to the original.

He has come up with a away to see the creation date and
set it back, but only one at a time.

Anyone know of a utility to do this in bulk?

Many thanks,
-T

Starting with Unix/Linux "touch" command, a utility
that (used to) change creation/modified/read, you can
make changes to the time stamp on a Windows or a Linux file.
So this should be "similar" to how the GNUWIN32 version
works on Windows. The ports were done around ten years
ago (and would be conceptually similar to Cygwin).

https://linux.die.net/man/1/touch

It's in Coreutils. You'd look for "touch.exe". Extract.
Run it. If it complains "blahblah.DLL is missing", you
download the Dependencies ZIP file, which has all the
DLLs that the main EXEs need.

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/coreutils.htm

The information page (previous link) is in the old "text"
format, while the download links take you to the newer
format "Sourceforge plus advertising" pages, where you
get your download.

Paul

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 16 Oct 2019 21:24:04 +0100, mick
wrote:

On 16/10/2019 19:40:40, T wrote:
Hi All,

A new customer called that is recovering from a ransonware
attack. He now has thousands of files with the wrong date
on them. He needs all the dates set back to the original.

He has come up with a away to see the creation date and
set it back, but only one at a time.

Anyone know of a utility to do this in bulk?

Many thanks,
-T

Bulk Rename Utility
https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php

Yes, works well, incredibly versatile.

If it doesn't seem to have what you want, keep looking at it. It's
there.

Though I got confused and subtracted when I should have added, or
something liek that, and did it wrong the first time.

On 16/10/2019 20.40, T wrote:
Hi All,

A new customer called that is recovering from a ransonware
attack.Â* He now has thousands of files with the wrong date
on them.Â* He needs all the dates set back to the original.

I suspect the restore procedure "created" the files with the date set to
today. Would it not be better to correct the restore procedure so that
it keeps dates and all attributes?


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On 10/17/19 3:44 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 16/10/2019 20.40, T wrote:
Hi All,

A new customer called that is recovering from a ransonware
attack.Â* He now has thousands of files with the wrong date
on them.Â* He needs all the dates set back to the original.

I suspect the restore procedure "created" the files with the date set to
today. Would it not be better to correct the restore procedure so that
it keeps dates and all attributes?



Your suspicions are correct.

The customer sent his drive off to a company
that did the recovers and negotiated with the
criminals to get the ransom down to 6000 U$D.

This is what he got back from the recovery
company. It is the decryption date. But
the original creation dates are still there.
He just has to put them back one at a time and
he has thousands of them.

On 10/16/19 11:40 AM, T wrote:
Hi All,

A new customer called that is recovering from a ransonware
attack.Â* He now has thousands of files with the wrong date
on them.Â* He needs all the dates set back to the original.

He has come up with a away to see the creation date and
set it back, but only one at a time.

Anyone know of a utility to do this in bulk?

Many thanks,
-T

https://www.infonautics-software.ch/filedatecorrector/