I very often archive interesting articles from the web (because there is no guarantee that anything persists on the Internet). Often times it’s fairly old articles. I like to make their filesystem metadata match their publication date, so that they can be easily sorted (or searched) based on that. Currently, the only way I have to do this is using the touch command; for example, to set the date to october 31st, 2014, you do:
touch -d 2014-10-31 some_old_article.odt
I never bother with times because I don’t think I’d remember more advanced syntax than YYYY-MM-DD.
So it’s a bit slow and clunky, as it requires me to temporarily whip up a terminal app and manually do all this.
Wouldn’t it be nice if Nautilus allowed me to do such corrections directly from the file’s properties dialog, i.e. make those date/time labels rows modifiable in the properties? (maybe with a toggle switch / edit button if you want extra added safety)
I’m throwing the idea out there in case someone else may find it interesting too, and perhaps it could be worth having as a feature request ticket. To me personally, it is within the realm of cool and fairly reasonable (i.e. not-too-complex-to-implement, I would suspect) power-user features for a file manager app, to reduce the reliance on the command line. It would certainly make my life easier to have this ability conveniently within reach in my favorite file management tool
This is so fringe, nothing nautilus needs IMO. But have you tried just changing your system time before saving the page? (that might confuse the web server but I assume everything is already cached before saving)
have you tried just changing your system time before saving the page?
This is waaaaay too tedious (gotta grab GNOME Control Center, navigate to the date and time panel, turn off NTP, and manually set the system date & time for every file?! Kill me now.) and dangerous (I’m pretty sure most running applications will not behave well if you change the system date/time underneath them like that, especially if you try to set it to something that goes years back, or even before 1971).
Not everything is archived by it, especially things behind a login or paywall, and anything that isn’t a standard webpage. Like, PDFs, videos, audio, etc. And it requires you to depend on the everlasting nature of the Internet Archive (really not guaranteed), or even the Internet (which you wouldn’t have on a train, plane, in the woods or in a zombie apocalypse shelter).
I think this warrants its own app. A «File metadata editor»
I would have much preferred if it was available directly in my file manager instead of installing yet another app, but I guess I have no choice. Filed this idea ticket on Tobias’ ideas brainstorm repository now.
