touch ?

http://www.stevemiller.net/downloads/ctb10w32.txt

If they weren't spread out all over the place, touch would be fine - I went through a while back and "touched" everything old and thought I got all of them but they continue to show back up as we get "new" data.  I think these come from data DVD's.  I can't just "touch" everything as we sometimes need to see that info periodically.

I usually run this in the background and use it to time myself so I don't go nuts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-4J5j74VPw

Dan

maybe it's a process that needs to be changed, have a staging area where new DVDs get copied to. Data gets "touched" and then moved to appropriate location on the file system. Probably easier said than done but otherwise you will be crawling through the file system and looking for files where mod date > today date ?  In that case maybe a couple more of youtube clips like that will keep you sane

There are too many hands in the pot to enforce a policy.  I wrote a simple vbscript to search-and-touch (I called it tsa.vbs) files from the future.   Assuming it finishes and does the job I'll post it here.  VBScript is super-slow but the command processor is on every microsoft OS so it is portable.

Dan

I think that would be a lot easier to do from Unix