Creation & Modification Date switched

[antjedi]

Two problems in one day--go figure.
I ran accross this problem when trying to figure out why my backups were getting weird results. Apparently some of the files created by AMS 4.002 (maybe other versions as well) have their creation and modification dates switched!

The .exe file is the biggest example, but also a few .daw and a .9 file (in the DATA folder) exhibit this problem. They show modification dates of 9/23/02 and creation dates of 10/4/02 (9/23 being the day I created the project, and 10/4 the last day I built the project. This isn't a major problem, but it should probably be fixed in the next patch...

[Darryl]

Just a comment about the Sept. 23rd date that you referred to. That date is actually the date we performed the newest update patch, therefore in those two cases, it will maintain that date. It is just a coincidence that your project was built on that day. If this is a concern to you, what you can do is obtain a touch utility program to set all of the dates to the current date for all of the files you are going to be distributing.

[Brett]

The created date of a generated AutoPlay application will always be the time that the build was run. This is because any time a file is copied in Windows (and presumable DOS) it's creation date is adjusted to the time that the file was copied. This is because it WAS created in that location at that time.

[antjedi]

It just seems to me to be confusing, since that causes the file to be created after it was modified...I'm not all that familiar with windows, as I'm a unix and mac person myself, but it just seems quite silly to me...