Search by "date created"?

[Guest]

Hello,

I'm trying to search for files that were created during a specific time
period but WinXP search only seems to work on "date modifed".

Can anybody advise me on how to do this please. One thing, I live in the UK
so several of the shareware programs that I've tried do not produce the right
results as they only work on US dates.

TIA. John.

 

[GHalleck]

Hello,

I'm trying to search for files that were created during a specific time
period but WinXP search only seems to work on "date modifed".

Can anybody advise me on how to do this please. One thing, I live in the UK
so several of the shareware programs that I've tried do not produce the right
results as they only work on US dates.

TIA. John.

"Date modified" and "date created" are the same thing insofar
as the search engine in Windows is concerned. The date recorded
is the date that the file was last saved. And as for date format,
there should be an applet for Regional Options in Control Panel.

 

[Richard Urban]

I have not used any Windows search function since the introduction of
Windows 95. Why? Because I have always bought and installed an advanced
"file manager" program that blows Windows search right out of the water.

You may want to look into a free trial of the one I use available at
http://www.ghisler.com/. I install the trial version of this on every single
computer I either build or repair. It is invaluable to me when servicing a
computer.


--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Guest]

Thanks for taking the time/trouble to respond GHalleck.

I'm not making myself clear I think.

1. I'm happy with the UK settings for the dates on my PC.
2. Looking at the "properties" of several of my music files there is a "date
created" shown in UK dates - which is before I transferred the files to my
current PC.
3. I'm trying to get a list of those files - but all the Search engines I've
tried (inc XP's own) will only show those files as being created when I
transferred them to my present PC.

The data is there otherwise how can it be shown in the file's properties -
but how can I get a list of these files??

Can you help me again? TIA. John.

 

[Guest]

Thanks very much Richard - I'll give Total Commander a try.

 

[billious]

Hello,

I'm trying to search for files that were created during a specific time
period but WinXP search only seems to work on "date modifed".

Can anybody advise me on how to do this please. One thing, I live in the
UK
so several of the shareware programs that I've tried do not produce the
right
results as they only work on US dates.

TIA. John.

From the DOS prompt, a DIR command will yield a list of files.

Allegedly, the switches /t:a /t:c and /t:w should give you last-accessed,
created and last-written date/times, so

DIR "drive:\path name\filemask.ext" /t:c >report.txt

should yield a file "report.txt" containing the data requested. From the
prompt,

DIR/?

should show the options available, including sorting options (such as /O
to sort by date)

Caveat: The DIR command certainly shows different reports for each of /t:a,
/t:c and /t:w (and /t:w seems to be the default) BUT on my system I notice a
file which was apparently created on 06/11/2004, last-written-to on
01/01/2004 (more than 10 months BEFORE it was created) and last-accessed on
10/11/2005 (oh-that would have been a virus-scan. How convenient.) All
Euro-dates of course...

Of course, that's just an oddity that jumped out at me. They do that
sometimes. I'm not going to repeat the experiment for any significant
proportion of the 200,00+ files on my system (but I could be bribed to do
so...)

HTH

....Bill

 

[Nightowl]

I'm trying to search for files that were created during a specific time
period but WinXP search only seems to work on "date modifed".

John, I'm a bit confused here. . .

If you use the XP Search, click on When was it modified > Specify dates,
in the drop-down you can choose Created Date.

Isn't that what you want?

 

[Guest]

Yes Nightowl you'd think that would do the trick wouldn't you? But it
doesn't. The files that setting shows on my PC relate to "date modified" not
created sadly!

I'm going to try Bill's DOS idea but since the files are in nested folders
I'm not too optimistic - esp wit hmy DOS "expertise" being extremely rusty.

John.

 

[Nightowl]

Yes Nightowl you'd think that would do the trick wouldn't you? But it
doesn't. The files that setting shows on my PC relate to "date modified" not
created sadly!

Curious. . . I tried it out, searching for files from Jan 1, 2001 to
March 1, 2001 (pre-XP on my computer), and it seemed to work, but, as
GHalleck said, the Date Created and Date Modified times shown in the
file Properties were the same.

I'm going to try Bill's DOS idea but since the files are in nested folders
I'm not too optimistic - esp wit hmy DOS "expertise" being extremely rusty.

Good luck! Let us know how you get on.