[Power Rename] Use Date Modified rather than Date Created

[ned-martin]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

Use Date Modified rather than Date Created

Even better, add an option and/or regex flag to specify which date is to be used.

Date Created is the least useful of all the likely available dates in my experience. It is usually the date the file was created on the current system, not the date the file was originally created or was last modified. The only date less useful would be date accessed.

There seem to be several similar requests which have been closed for no apparent reason.

Scenario when this would be used?

I currently use other third-party software to rename using date modified or date taken etc., but it would be nice to be able to do simple timestamp-based renaming in this tool. I find that date created is almost never useful - for example, for content copied from a mobile device to a computer date created is usually the date that the files were copied (almost never useful) whereas date modified will be the time the files were actually last modified (actually useful)

Some examples where this would be useful:

• Renaming photos taken on a phone and copied to my computer
• Renaming files created on any external non-Windows system and copied to my computer where the created date will be when they were copied (not useful) and the modified date will be when they were actually last modified (useful, and depending on the file, probably when it was actually created on its original system)

Supporting information

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