date modified not accurate for folders

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joe

Hello,

I think my filesystem is broken. I running Windows XP
Professional sp 1. My C drive is a FAT32 type.

No matter what I do in a folder/directory, the "Date
Modified" attribute value will not change. It always
reflects the creation date, it never updates. So if I add
files to the directory, delete files from the directory,
nothing changes in the "Date Modified" column.

What's going?
 
What you are seeing is correct. You are not modifying the folder when you
add/change files. The date stays the same. It is the folder creation date.
 
That doesn't make any sense. Some programs that monitor
changes on the filesystem do so by looking at date modified
on folders.

Also, that's not the way it worked in Win2000, and it's not
the way it works in any other operating system.

I have a hard time believing that this is the way it's
supposed to work.

joe
 
My five computers are the same way Joe!

joe said:
That doesn't make any sense. Some programs that monitor
changes on the filesystem do so by looking at date modified
on folders.

Also, that's not the way it worked in Win2000, and it's not
the way it works in any other operating system.

I have a hard time believing that this is the way it's
supposed to work.

joe
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Crusty,

I believe that this is how XP works, but I still don't
understand it. In the fileviewer, there is also an "date
created" attribute for folders. Why would you need a "date
modified" and "date created" if they both always report the
same values?

I'm just baffled at how MS could change such a fundamental
aspect of the operating system in such a broken way. I'm
wondering if there is a switch somewhere that can flip the
filesystem back into Win2k/NT mode for the sake of this
"date modified" folder attribute.

regards,

joe
 
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