[AccessD] OT: What does Last Date Accessed mean?

Thanks Gary!
 
Turns out the registry key for Last Accessed doesn't even exist on my PC.
And I'm not adding it.

It does look like the only reliable date is Last Modified.  I'll stick with
just that.

Dan Waters


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Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: What does Last Date Accessed mean?

Perhaps you have that timestamp update turned off?

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/nt/registry/rtips71.shtml

Here is some mroe info.

http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy15.htm

If you google search on "windows file timestamps"
you will find lots of info....

Apparently it is up to the application to update the "Accessed"
timestamp so it's not consistently updated as the system maintained
Created and modified timestamps are.

GK

On 9/7/06, Dan Waters <dwaters at usinternet.com> wrote:
> I want to list the files in a folder on a form so a user can select the
file
> they want to open.  I can list these three dates to help give more info,
but
> they don't seem to make sense.
>
> I think I see that Modified can be earlier than Created if the file was a
> copy and hadn't been modified since the copy action.
>
> But what does Date Accessed mean?  I opened a file, looked at it, then
> closed it w/o changes.  The Date Accessed did not change.
>
> I did a Google search, but nothing helpful showed up.
>
> Thanks!
> Dan
>
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