Incorrect Properties

[Guest]

Take a look at this link: http://www.showhouse.ie/properties.html

It is the propeties sheet for a word doc in windows 2000 explorer. According to the first sheet the document was created on 02.10.01 but modified on 12.06.01, in other words it was modified BEFORE it was created.

The second sheet says that the file was created on 22.11.00.

Why would this be happening?

I need to move 240,000 docs to folders based on date but it's not working because of these inconsistencies.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Take a look at this link: http://www.showhouse.ie/properties.html

It is the propeties sheet for a word doc in windows 2000 explorer.

According to the first sheet the document was created on 02.10.01 but
modified on 12.06.01, in other words it was modified BEFORE it was created.

The second sheet says that the file was created on 22.11.00.

Why would this be happening?

I need to move 240,000 docs to folders based on date but it's not working

because of these inconsistencies.

It depends on your point of view (or on your date format). To many people,
the creation date of 02.10.01 is the 10th February 2001 whereas the
modification date of 12.06.01 is the 6th December 2001, which is clearly
AFTER the creation date.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the reply.. but as the property sheets show, the created dates are 02 October 2001 and 20/11/2000 and the modified date is 12 June 2001. What you say might be correct if reading my notation - short dates, but not the notation on the properties sheets themselves - long dates. (I should have posted exactly what was on the sheets - http://www.showhouse.ie/properties.html - apologies)

 

[Gary Smith]

Take a look at this link: http://www.showhouse.ie/properties.html

It is the propeties sheet for a word doc in windows 2000 explorer. According to the first sheet the document was created on 02.10.01 but modified on 12.06.01, in other words it was modified BEFORE it was created.

The second sheet says that the file was created on 22.11.00.

Why would this be happening?

The file creation date as shown on the properties sheet is the date that
particular copy of the file was written. If you copy an existing file and
paste the copy into a different folder, you'll find that the cloned file
has the original modification date, but the creation date will be today.

The consequence is that the creation date is pretty much useless for any
type of file management.

 

[Guest]

I notice that there are two different file creation dates, one date in the General tab and another date in the Summary (Advanced) tab. Which one would be the correct date?

 

[Gary Smith]

I notice that there are two different file creation dates, one date in

the General tab and another date in the Summary (Advanced) tab. Which one
would be the correct date?

The creation date in the Summary tab is the date the file was originally
created. That's part of the metadata internal to the file and is not
affected by operations at the operating system level. So far as I know,
only Office programs create files with this sort of internal metadata.
You can create summary data for any file in an NTFS system, but for most
files it's stored externally and is affected by file management
operations.