corey_h wrote:
Alright, my curiousity got the best of me. I was looking at a different way to create a document; using the Save As function. I never tested this before. There is another way to create a document that will result in "the Created Date on the disk is earlier than the Document Birth time". Working on an existing document and then saving it on top of itself using the Save As feature. By on top of itself I mean to don't create a new document. The filesystem create date remains the same while the document "birth" date is when the document was saved.
CoreyThat sounds a lot more probable to me. <img src="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif" alt="Smile" title="Smile" /> (this is something I could do - and actually do sometimes).
Actually being a pendrive, it would make even more sense.
Example:
you have a file on a pendrive
you want to edit/update it and either copy it to internal hard disk or open it from the pendrive and then do a "Save as" on hard disk
you then edit the copy on the hard disk, then save it (still on hard disk)
you save it again with "Save as" to the pendrive to "synchronize" the edits
Another (open) question, actually possibly Off Topic, we do know that the document is in the .docx format, but nowadays there are tens of tools/apps that can save text in that format, question is, do they all provide the "correct" metadata (in the sense of: do they "sign" the document with the app name or do they simply use the same MS strings)?
I.e. till now it was assumed (and surely this is the most common case) that the Word document was actually created by Word, but - especially because it appears on a pen drive, and thus we have no additional info on the system and on programs installed on it - this is not 100% safe to assume.
jaclaz
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