Re: PROPERTIES DIALOG TIME ACCESSED

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Karl wrote:
Reading a file, even its properties, counts as "accessing" it. Try the same
thing
using the File-Properties dialog.

If i understand the above correctly means you can never find the last time
another
program accessed this file. You would always get the time your program
accessed
the file. Am I wrong here?

Here is what happens with the CFileInfoDemonstration program. I just ran the
program and selected file A. The program result was accessed Tuesday May 10,
2005 11:23:22 am. This is correct. Next I exit the sample program then access
file A and close it. Next I start demo pgm and select file A again. The time
accessed
remains the same as the previous time. I do this a few times, but the time
does not
change. What am i missing? I have no idea why this should not keep working. If
I do this manually with dialog properties it works correctly every time.

Please explain.


"Karl E. Peterson" wrote:

> jerry_ys wrote:
> > Thanks Carl, but unless i'm making a mistake it seems the sample you
> > pointed me to does not yield the correct time after providing the
> > correct time the first time.
>
> Reading a file, even its properties, counts as "accessing" it. Try the same thing
> using the File-Properties dialog.
>
> > Also I suspect you are not using the api's i mention in my question to
> > obtain this time . m_fi.LastAccessTime .
>
> Right, those timestamps were extracted from a WIN32_FIND_DATA structure returned by
> FindFirstFile. I'm pretty sure you'd observe the same results using GetFileTime.
> Given the code in that sample, such a test should be pretty easy to code up, eh?
>
> > Do you see the same problem or is it just me?
>
> Not sure it's a problem?
>
> Later... Karl
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>
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