Get folder properties or info

Does anyone know how to access a folder's properties (eg.
size, modified, date, etc). I have 2500 jpg files within a folder
and would like to know if the folder has been updated in any way
instead of checking all 2500 files using something like buddyAPI's
baFileDate().
Many thanks in advance / RP

Pangy (London) wrote:
> Does anyone know how to access a folder's properties
(eg. size,
> modified, date, etc). I have 2500 jpg files within a
folder and would
> like to know if the folder has been updated in any way
instead of
> checking all 2500 files using something like buddyAPI's
baFileDate().
Checking all the files will not take very long. I would not
trust a folder's
properties to check on its contents.
Andrew

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