Software To See File Usage History

Discussion in 'Software' started by Gene0490, Mar 16, 2019.

  1. Gene0490

    Gene0490 Private E-2

    Salutations to all members of the Major Geeks forums! I'm not much of an expert whenever it comes to software or computers, but I do enjoy gaming and occasionally make all sorts of gameplay videos. I made a few videos two weeks ago in a program called OBS Studio and wanted to see what specific video I made first on a specific date and time. However, OBS Studio overwrites older log files (something that I did not know at the time), and all the log files that I needed were lost (couldn't retrieve them, tried with software, txt files are corrupt).

    In short, my question is the following. Is there possibly any program or a way to see each specific timestamp for each single time an executable was started? (This would give me an idea of whether I used OBS Studio during a date I am looking for), or is this impossible? I tried using Nir Softs LastActivityView but it doesn't show the full events of that specific date. I thought that perhaps a prefetch file related to the OBS executable would have this information, but oddly enough, as far as I have read, prefetch files don't have that type of information (really strange IMHO, there's even a run count for each individual program, but no individual timestamp for every time this program was run).

    Basically, I'm looking for a way to see all the events related to this OBS executable, this would give me some insight that I need. Please share your thoughts guys! Thanks in advance,

    Gene
     
  2. Eldon

    Eldon Major Geek Extraordinaire

    Right-click the video > Properties and you'll see the date and time the video was created.
    Put all the gameplay videos in a folder and sort them by Date.
     
  3. Gene0490

    Gene0490 Private E-2

    That's the thing, I made a ton of short videos and deleted some of them, so I wont be able to remember which file was first or last. Only thing that would help is some sophisticated way to actually see the executable activity (or so i think at least)
     
  4. Gene0490

    Gene0490 Private E-2

    And sorry for double posting, but when I said that I "made a few videos" in the original post I meant that as a figure of speech, my apologies. I made a few videos that I ended up uploading, but also made a lot of small testing versions and so forth. So that's why I want to see the history of what video was made at what time and so forth, if that is possible.
     
  5. Eldon

    Eldon Major Geek Extraordinaire

    Sort the videos by Date.
    Sort Videos.jpg
     

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