[X4U] Creation/Modified date of Mail attachments

[David Ledger]

At 22:39 -0500 1/4/09, Charles Howse wrote:
>Hi Mark,
>I'm no expert at 'find', but I see in the man page that it will find 
>by creation time, and/or modification time.  Maybe that will get you 
>started.

No (see below)

At 00:28 -0400 2/4/09, Mark Des Cotes wrote:
>Nope, In Word it still shows the time I saved the attachment. as 
>Created and Modified. However it does show Feb 5th as last time it 
>was printed. Anyone know why the Created/Modified time is lost in an 
>e-mail attachment?

Because what you are asking for is the document data creation time. 
What the system tells you is the time that the filesystem object that 
the document resides in was created.

David


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