Under Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000, you can, if you are running on NTFS: right click on the file in the Explorer and check the "Accessed Time". This may reset that time; it seems to sometimes. It may be the Explorer trying to load the icon or something else that's doing it.
>From the command prompt, you can type: dir /ta filename That will show the "last accessed" time. Find a file you haven't used in a while, dir /ta to check, then 'type' the file, or open it in Notepad and don't save it, and dir /ta again, and the time is updated to right now. dir has many options under NT. dir /? knows them all. If you're using any variant of FAT, or using Win9x, I don't believe this information is available. > -----Original Message----- > From: Petrus Repo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 12:25 PM > To: Mike > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: how to tell when a file was last read > > > > Hi. > > Check its atime (access time): "ls -l --time=atime <file>". > Issuing "man ls" gives you more details. > > > -Petrus > > On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Mike wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > I understand there is a way to tell when a file was last > _read_ by a user. > > (as opposed to when it was created) > > Does anybody know how to do this ? > > under linux ? > > under windows??? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Mike > > >
