Make Top Folder's Date Modified Attribute Reflect Its Contents

I have a folder that contains profile backups for a bunch of users. It's a fairly simple file structure:

E:\Users
E:\Users\User1
E:\Users\User1\My Documents
E:\Users\User1\My Documents\file2.file
E:\Users\User1\My Documents\file3.file
E:\Users\User1\Pictures
E:\Users\User1\file1.file
E:\Users\User2


And so on.

What I'm trying to achieve is that the folders for User1, User2, etc. have Date Modified attributes that reflect the most recent of any file or folder within it. Currently, I have a number of User folders that have a modified date of sometime in 2008, while its respective subfolders have modified dates much more recent than 2008. I just want to be able to take a quick glance at the top level folders and see what the most recent date modified is for any of its contents.

Is this possible?

Thank you very much.

CoachHoach said:

I have a folder that contains profile backups for a bunch of users. It's a fairly simple file structure:

E:\Users
E:\Users\User1
E:\Users\User1\My Documents
E:\Users\User1\My Documents\file2.file
E:\Users\User1\My Documents\file3.file
E:\Users\User1\Pictures
E:\Users\User1\file1.file
E:\Users\User2


And so on.

What I'm trying to achieve is that the folders for User1, User2, etc. have Date Modified attributes that reflect the most recent of any file or folder within it. Currently, I have a number of User folders that have a modified date of sometime in 2008, while its respective subfolders have modified dates much more recent than 2008. I just want to be able to take a quick glance at the top level folders and see what the most recent date modified is for any of its contents.

Is this possible?

Thank you very much.

Your profile says you are using Vista.
Are you asking for someone who uses Windows 7 ?

Please clarify before I try to give my answer.

t-4-2 said:

Your profile says you are using Vista.
Are you asking for someone who uses Windows 7 ?

Please clarify before I try to give my answer.

Technically, I'm looking for a solution for a Windows Server 2003 R2 machine, but I was also hoping that the same (or a similar) fix would apply to Windows 7 as well. Sorry for not clarifying to begin with. My daily use computer is running Vista, but this issue regards a different environment.

CoachHoach said:

t-4-2 said:

Your profile says you are using Vista.
Are you asking for someone who uses Windows 7 ?

Please clarify before I try to give my answer.

Technically, I'm looking for a solution for a Windows Server 2003 R2 machine, but I was also hoping that the same (or a similar) fix would apply to Windows 7 as well. Sorry for not clarifying to begin with. My daily use computer is running Vista, but this issue regards a different environment.

Will this screenshot fits your rerequirement ? (I am using Windows 7.)

Possibly, but it's hard for me to tell you exactly without knowing that folder structure.

Here is a pair of screenshots that demonstrate my issue:

This is the top level folder for a bunch of users (loki simply being one of the ones to exhibit the issue):

Note the date is 5/18/2011.

Now if I enter the loki directory, you can see there exists a folder with a more recent date modified (6/7/2011):


Ideally, I would like the top directory (C:\Users\loki) to exhibit the more recent date modified (6/7/2011).
It seems that making changes in its subdirectories does not affect it, though.

I see now. The change in subfolder is not reflected in the main folder.

I don't have an answer for you.
Sorry.

logicearth said:

Sub directories will never affect the parent in this way and there is no way to make it do so.

I see. There wouldn't happen to be any kindof 3rd party utilities or scripts I could use to accomplish this, would there?