Comments on: Bento Bug: Back-Ups

By: Florian

Florian — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:47:43 +0000

Actually, Simon refers to the same data we all do: the date of the bento.bentodb file. I think it’s simply the date Bento creates initially, but I would have to double-check.
If you delete that file and restart Bento, a new one is created with today’s date, I believe. That date doesn’t change for the life of the file, I assume…
Only the dates of it’s package components change.

By: Stan

Stan — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:59:19 +0000

Hi Florian

I am reporting that I do not appear to have the same issue with Dates as those reported above.
Certainly there are idiosyncrasies with these ‘Dates”, so it seems reasonable to define which Date-Location is being referenced.
I feel that perhaps I could learn something and I am particularly interested in the Date that Simon is referring to?

By: Florian

Florian — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:15:15 +0000

Stan,
even though you don’t really ask a question, let me comment on your observations.
As you noticed, the file bento.bentodb is a package file. That’s why the dates are what they are. As you found, the actual database inside has the correct dates.
Did you have any open questions about the dates?

By: Stan

Stan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:58:19 +0000

I am just Bento literate enough for my own purposes and found this site via (you’ve guessed) Google.
So I am a little late to this ‘party’ and along the way probably missed something.

I am using Snow Leopard and Bento 3.0.3 (12327).
In Finder ‘List View’ bento.bentodb ‘Date Created’ and ‘Date Modified’ are quoted as being the same date. In my case the ‘Date Created’ is correct and the date quoted under ‘Date Modified’ is in error.
The ‘Date Last Opened’ is grayed out, so cannot be shown.

A similar scenario exists in Finder ‘Column View’
However the ‘Date Last Opened’ is shown under ‘Preview’ and is correct.

Using Finder in ‘Column View’ to ‘Show Package Contents’ the Database can be seen in ‘Preview’ to have ‘Date Created’, ‘Date Modified’ and ‘Date Last Opened’ all showing the correct appropriate dates.

Along the way it is observed that other Components of the Package have differing ‘Dates’ which appear to be correct.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:38:13 +0000

I actually posted about this a while ago. I'm not 100% sure where the bento.bentodb file's date comes from and it could effectively be set by any of the files within the bundle changing. However, as you have realised, it is not an accurate indicator of when the file was last used.

By: Florian

Florian — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:14:29 +0000

Yes Jens, I noticed that before. I think the reason this is happening is that it IS a package file. The actual database file is only one component of it. Some of the components are only “re-used.” From which component it actually gets the date I don’t know. Maybe Simon will know. I’ll ask him.

By: Jens Rasmussen

Jens Rasmussen — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:08:29 +0000

Something really is wrong with the backup routine. I just checked the folder in which I store my Bento Backup packages. They are all ‘last midified on 5th May’ – hardly…

When I look inside the package, I can see that Contents/Resources/Database has the correct date – the name of the backup package has the date in it…