NTFS date attribute problem

[Guest Luka Obersnu]

Hi all,

 

I just found interesting discovery while searching thru disk for files older

than, for example 1.1.2007 (to free up some disk space on folders with users

documents).

 

Some of the files have date created newer than date modified. I was curious

and I have also checked the files in c:\Windows directory and got the same

results. I found out that this can happen on any type of file, for example

doc, cab, jpeg, …

 

We have Windows 2003 SBS R2 SP2 running on HP Proliant ML 350 G4 hardware.

 

Is this some kind of bug, because we didn’t change date and time on our

windows server since we installed it? Does someone have an explanation?

 

Luka

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: NTFS date attribute problem

 

 

"Luka Obersnu" <LukaObersnu@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:95316E53-5C4E-4FD4-BF15-0B626789D4A6@microsoft.com...

> Hi all,

>

> I just found interesting discovery while searching thru disk for files

> older

> than, for example 1.1.2007 (to free up some disk space on folders with

> users

> documents).

>

> Some of the files have date created newer than date modified. I was

> curious

> and I have also checked the files in c:\Windows directory and got the same

> results. I found out that this can happen on any type of file, for example

> doc, cab, jpeg, .

>

> We have Windows 2003 SBS R2 SP2 running on HP Proliant ML 350 G4 hardware.

>

> Is this some kind of bug, because we didn't change date and time on our

> windows server since we installed it? Does someone have an explanation?

>

> Luka

 

I small amount of research shows that this happens when copying

a file from one folder to another. The file in the target folder will

now show a "created" day of "today", which is correct, and a "modified"

date that equals the date when the source file was last modified. No

bug here!