Get modification date.

[Heathbo]

I apologize if this has shown up in other post. My question is,

Is it possible to find the modification date of a file? Not the record, but the file. I looked at the get functions and couldn't find a way to do this.

My reason is:

1. I use a script to backup my FileMaker database.

2. I have a field titled last_backed_up. This field gets time stamped ever time the backup script is run.

3. The backup script goes through multiple tables to see if any records in those tables have a modification date that is different compared to the last_backed_up field.

4. If there is a difference, the script then backs up the FileMaker file. If there is no difference, the script quits.

While this script works, it would seem to be a lot easier if I could get the modification date of the database file itself rather than go through all the records. This would also be great for when I make structure or GUI changes. Which wouldn't effect record modification dates.

Any thoughts?