I picked up this CODE from Salmon Trout from another post.  When I look at files on my desktop the date and time are echoed fine.  When I TRY to look at files on another drive or a server I get no echo at all.

Any thoughts?

echo off
for /f "delims=" %%A in ( 'dir /b /a-d /od c\:docume~1\[username]\desktop\[filename]' ) do (
   set fdate=%%~tA
      )
echo %fdate%I believe the ~t variable modifier only works on local drives. What HAPPENS if you try to get a full DIR listing (not using /b) of the folder? I mean this style of listing...

Code: [Select]Volume in drive C is Win07
 Volume Serial Number is E4DB-A92A

 Directory of C:\

24/09/2010  06:26 PM             1,024 .rnd
19/06/2010  03:16 PM             1,414 backup.log
28/03/2010  10:46 PM               956 dir.txt
06/10/2010  05:35 PM     3,169,705,984 hiberfil.sys
02/01/2010  08:03 PM            57,310 Logon001.jpg
14/03/2010  09:52 PM             1,106 makespecialfolders.bat
03/03/2007  05:44 PM            15,658 mike.jpg
28/03/2010  10:45 PM               870 mike.jpg.lnk
06/10/2010  05:35 PM       314,572,800 pagefile.sys
13/07/2010  06:26 PM       111,562,752 PM11_Pers_full_ea_x64.msi
29/07/2010  10:47 PM                79 whatever.scf
              12 File(s)  3,595,930,401 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  72,403,623,936 bytes freeWhen I get the full listing I have the file names and dates and TIMES as you have shown.  When I use the /b switch I just get the names. Quote

When I get the full listing I have the file names and dates and times as you have shown.