Can I preserve the original file date on modification?

[ceperman]

I want to do initial tweeking of photos (resize, auto-levels, sharpen) but would really like retain the original file modification date shown in the Linux (Mint) File manager. Is this possible?

I'm fairly new to digiKam and am finding it pretty amazing even though I'm using a pretty old version  (2.5.0).

[Peter Albrecht]

Hi ceperman,

there is an option in digikam to keep the file system
modification time when changing metadata (such as tags,
caption, star rating, ...). But I don't think there is such
an option for resizing, sharpen, ....

As a workaround, you could use the linux tool "jhead" to set
the modification time stamp after image editing back to the
EXIF timestamp of image creation:

   # jhead -ft mypic.jpg

Regards,
        Peter

On 10.12.2014 17:42, ceperman wrote:

> I want to do initial tweeking of photos (resize, auto-levels, sharpen) but
> would really like retain the original file modification date shown in the
> Linux (Mint) File manager. Is this possible?
>
> I'm fairly new to digiKam and am finding it pretty amazing even though I'm
> using a pretty old version  (2.5.0).
>
>
>
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[ceperman]

Thanks. That works.