> On Jun 10, 2016, at 11:19 AM, Rich Siegel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Untitled documents don't correspond to any location on disk. Periodically, a > snapshot of untitled (and unsaved) documents is created so that their > contents may be restored when starting up, but the snapshots are not > themselves used as a location for the document. > > There is no separate "creation date" property of documents, irrespective of > whether they were ever saved to disk. > > So, to answer your question more directly: there is no way to discover the > creation date of an untitled document. > > R. Rich, I am rather confused by your response, because it does not seem to correspond with what I am seeing here . . . or perhaps I just don't understand what you are saying. As I mentioned in my previous post, after we were advised to look in " ~/Library/BBEdit/Auto-Save Recovery/Data", I created a brand new text document, and just typed some gibberish in it, but I did not save the file. However, just as the previous person had stated -- sorry, I forget his name, and I already trashed that email -- within a minute of creating that new untitled file, a new text file did in fact appear in the aforementioned path. I assume that these are the snapshots you are referring to. But the point is, those files do have a creation date and a last modified date in their "Get Info" window, if you do a command-i on them from the Finder. Of course, the problem is that these snapshots -- assuming that is what they are -- only have file names consisting of a series of letters, numbers and dashes, which I am sure you personally understand. However, if you open the file, you can see its contents, and thus know if that is the file, the creation date of which you want to know. That is why I am having difficulty understanding what you are saying. Also, by saying "Untitled documents don't correspond to any location on disk", are you confirming what I suggested earlier that untitled files are only stored in active memory, which is why they would not yet have an address on your hard drive? Just trying to understand here. Thanks! -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
