Hi Martin, I have worked out a little more about how files are created. The printed time confuses me as you must save the document in order for the document to store the printed time. However if you save a file it will then change the statistics created date. When you go into windows explorer and right click and say new word document it will create a file with the following properties. Btw i have found the best way to view these items is in windows explorer and right click on the file and select properties. However W2K does not show you statistics where NT and 98 will. General tab: Friday, July 06, 2001 10:09:17 AM Friday, August 01, 1997 8:37:00 AM Friday, July 06, 2001 10:15:01 AM Statistics tab: blank Friday, August 01, 1997 8:37:00 AM Friday, July 06, 2001 10:15:01 AM First time is created, second is modified, third is last accessed. Now when you first open a document it fills in the Created and modifies the Last accessed times. The august 01, 1997 time is from the c:\winnt\shellnew\winword8.doc file. So as you can see this is how someone could have a created time before the statistics created time. The printed time does stump me though. The only way i could replicate the printed time being lower than the statistics created time would be to make new document in explorer. Few days later open it then save it. Then i change my time because some shareware program is running out then I open the document again and print from it then save it. But the last accessed and modified times would have changed so I would then have to change the time back again open document and save it. Over the space of time these is all possible but the times you gave were only a few days. I hope some of this helps and please let me know if you work it out. Also just for your information word 97 stores the last 10 authors by default. This is stored with the authors name having a space after each character. Word Microsoft kb articles of relevance: Q172875 - WD97: General Document Properties Incorrect During Save Q223790 - WD97: How to Minimize Metadata in Microsoft Word Documents Q195005 - WD97: Some Document Properties Populated Automatically -Daniel Heinonen >At 10:54 AM 29/06/01 -0400, you wrote: >>Good Morning All, >> >>Using Windows NT 4.0 file manager to review the file properties for files >>located on a floppy I came across something I don't understand and hope one >>or more of you may have an answer. >> >>The GENERAL tab of the file properties gives you the created, modified and >>accessed dates and times for file. >> >>The STATISTICS tab also gives you the same categories but also gives you a >>printed date and time. >> >>For one of the files that I'm reviewing, the created date and time are >>different between the GENERAL and STATISTICS tabs. The GENERAL one is July >>7, 2000 and the STATISTICS one is July 10, 2000. The printed field >>indicates the file was printed on July 9, 2000. >> >>Does anyone know why the created dates could be different for the same file? >>How would I explain how a document could be printed before it is created? >> >>I am confident that someone out there has ran into this before and I >>apologize if this has been covered previously. >> >>Respectfully, >>Ava M. Martin >> >>email: ava.martinat_private > > >----------------------------------------------------------------- > >This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. >For more information on this free incident handling, management and >tracking system please see: > >http://aris.securityfocus.com > ----------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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