Created Modified Accessed Definitions
Posted: 23 Jan 2006 17:09
Hello,
Would you please explain exactly what created modified and accessed means?
I know this must be very simple, but somehow I don't quite get what they mean exactly.
I just copied a bunch of files from CD to my hard drive and they all say created 1-23-06...of course the files were not created 1-23-05 really....I mean I made the files a while back. I created them months ago...so created must refer to the copies copied to my hard drive from CD were created !-23-06. (Very sad because now when I try to sort by date they all say 1-23-06, not the dates I really created them. So now sort by date created does not help me in any way at all.)
Modified? I opened a file and modified it and saved a new version of it, yet the modified date remains the old date not the newly modified date. I just modified it so I thought modified would say 1-23-06, but instead modified still says year 04, 05, 03 etc...so what is modified referring to if it's not referring to the modifications I just made to the file?
Accessed I think means when the file was last opened, right?
Thank you very much for any clarification of what these terms really mean.
frew
Would you please explain exactly what created modified and accessed means?
I know this must be very simple, but somehow I don't quite get what they mean exactly.
I just copied a bunch of files from CD to my hard drive and they all say created 1-23-06...of course the files were not created 1-23-05 really....I mean I made the files a while back. I created them months ago...so created must refer to the copies copied to my hard drive from CD were created !-23-06. (Very sad because now when I try to sort by date they all say 1-23-06, not the dates I really created them. So now sort by date created does not help me in any way at all.)
Modified? I opened a file and modified it and saved a new version of it, yet the modified date remains the old date not the newly modified date. I just modified it so I thought modified would say 1-23-06, but instead modified still says year 04, 05, 03 etc...so what is modified referring to if it's not referring to the modifications I just made to the file?
Accessed I think means when the file was last opened, right?
Thank you very much for any clarification of what these terms really mean.
frew