Hi,

Well, it has to be stored Somewhere, as a temp file, and in fact it is:

~/Library/BBEdit/Auto-Save Recovery/Data/<uuid>.txt

 ;-)

/Jakob


> On 09 Jun 2016, at 21:38, WordWeaver777 <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jun 10, 2016, at 6:21 AM, Greg Reyna <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Is there a way to learn the creation date of an unsaved, "untitled text" 
>> file?
> 
> Hello Greg. I read your question with curiosity, being as I had never 
> considered this before. In fact, at first I thought it might be a joke, until 
> I actually opened the message in Mail.app and read the entire thing.
> 
> My personal assumption would be that until a BBEdit text doc -- or any file 
> for that matter -- is actually saved to the hard drive, it cannot have a 
> creation date, because it is only being stored in memory.
> 
> Led by my curiosity, I created a brand new text doc, typed some nonsense in 
> it, and then looked at the status bar that is located at the bottom of its 
> window.
> 
> Sure enough, it simply says "(never saved)", whereas with a saved document, 
> it would actually show when it was last saved.
> 
> Next, I looked under BBEdit's various menus. The only thing there is the "Get 
> Info" option under the "View" menu, which you can obviously do with a 
> "command-i" as well.
> 
> But, as you may have already determined yourself, opening the Get Info window 
> does not reveal the creation date, perhaps confirming that until a file is 
> actually saved to your hard drive, it cannot have a creation date.
> 
> Perhaps someone -- Rich? Patrick? -- with more experience than I can offer a 
> more satisfying response.
> 
> 
> 
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