Outlook 2000 Save Attachments Change Timestamp

[Guest]

When I receive an email using Outlook 2000 with Microsoft Word as my Email
editor, that has attachments, if I save the attachment using File/Save
Attachments from the Email menu bar, the attachments get saved with timestamp
of when I save the attachment.

I have seen this where it does not save the current timestamp of the file,
but the timestamp of when the file was created, but can't remember how to do
this.

Does anyone know how I can prevent the file attachment from saving with the
current datetime stamp?

 

[William Lefkovics [MVP]]

That timestamp is specific to the file system. Date modified and Date
created are separate Windows explorer file attributes, but I think when you
save to a new location, they may be equal, usually.

Any particular attachment types or all?

 

[Guest]

William, thanks for response, but I don't think you understood what I was
asking. When I save an attachment (it doesn't matter what kind it is), if I
look in Windows Explorer, the DateTimestamp of the file is changed to the
time that I save the attachment on my computer. I do not want this behavior.
I need the timestamp to stay the same as the original file. For instance,
if I have a file dated 10/1/2005 at 3:00:00PM, and I email it to myself, when
I go to save the attachment, the file will now have a date and time of
4/4/2006 at 3:30:00PM (the time of this email).

How do I stop this from happening?

 

[Gordon]

William, thanks for response, but I don't think you understood what I
was asking. When I save an attachment (it doesn't matter what kind
it is), if I look in Windows Explorer, the DateTimestamp of the file
is changed to the time that I save the attachment on my computer. I
do not want this behavior. I need the timestamp to stay the same as
the original file. For instance, if I have a file dated 10/1/2005 at
3:00:00PM, and I email it to myself, when I go to save the
attachment, the file will now have a date and time of 4/4/2006 at
3:30:00PM (the time of this email).

How do I stop this from happening?

that's the "modified" date. In Windows Explorer, go to "Details" view,
right-click anywhere in the column headings bar and you can add the
"created" date field which should not be the same as the "modified" date.

HTH

 

[Guest]

Gordon, thanks for the reply. One thought...irregardless of which column I
show in Windows Explorer, when I save an Attachment, why is the timestamp of
the file changing? I am not doing anything to the attachment - I am not
opening the attachment in it's related program (ie: .DOC open in WORD) and
then saving it from there. This behavior does not happen on my laptop, but
for some reason is happening on my desktop PC.

Is there some setting that needs to be set so that this does not happen?

 

[Brian Tillman]

Gordon, thanks for the reply. One thought...irregardless of which
column I show in Windows Explorer, when I save an Attachment, why is
the timestamp of the file changing? I am not doing anything to the
attachment

Yes, you are. Attachments are not files until you save them to disk. The
act of saving them to disk is, in fact, a modification. When you modify a
file, Windows will add a time stamp.

 

[Guest]

Ok, it has been a few weeks since this post, because for whatever reason,
everything is working fine now, I wanted to do a follow-up to clear this up.
On April 10, I had a user send me as an attachment, a Word document that they
changed on "4/10/2006 at 1:30pm". When I opened my email on "4/12/2006 at
5:40pm" and did a file save attachment, the file saved to my computer with
the "4/10/2006 1:30pm" timestamp. This is exactly what I wanted to happen,
as I had tried to explain in my posts. But for some reason, it was not doing
this back in early April when I started this post - it would actually save it
with "4/12/2006 5:40pm" timestamp.

For whatever reason, it is working fine now.