Hi Annabelle & Adrian,

I'm not very familiar with the way the Time Stamp feature is used but, could 
this be used / modified to deal with this issue?
Take care.
Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Adrian Spratt
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2015 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: Is There a Way For Me to Change...


In principle the date created cannot change, but in reality it can. I’ve 
noticed it myself, but I haven’t determined what might cause it to happen. 
It can cause problems, such as in figuring out which of two related, 
similarly-named files came first.



From: Brian Vogel [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2015 12:15 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Is There a Way For Me to Change...



Date created cannot be changed through any easy means since it's meant to 
denote when file was actually created.  What gets shown by default in the 
generic "date" field in Windows Explorer is not date created, but date 
modified.  Any time a file is edited by any program that makes any changes 
that get saved the date modified will be updated.  Date created remains 
fixed at the date the file was created on the system.

You get some interesting results when you copy files with regard to these 
two dates.  The copied versions will have a date created of the date & time 
when you pasted them.  However, their date modified will be carried over 
from the original files, so you can have something that shows a date created 
of today but a date modified of three years ago.

Brian


 

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