Modified before Created?

How is this possible? And the size!

 

Perhaps it was copied out of dllcache on April 28th and perhaps it's compressed?

Like this one - except size difference is a different reason:

 

Another reason may be the system clock was not set properly when the document was created which may account for the illusion. Either that or it was magic!

-- Tom

 

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

To illustrate: here is a file (compressed) in ../dllcache.

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I copy the file to another location and the created date changes but the modified date stays the same.

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I don't think that the information provided in that article is completely correct. In my dllcache directory, most of the files have 1999 as both created and modified, meaning, I think, that 1999 was the date that the installer was set up with all of the directories/files. So, the file was created in the installer directory on that date. Here is an example:

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The 2003.12.06 created date in the first screenshot was when I installed Win2K. I think SP4 updated some of these dlls, hence, the later created date.

The created date of my dllcache directory is 2003.12.06.

So, I have two created dates for files in that directory, both technically correct, yet a bit misleading.

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rich