Chisco77 wrote:
The question is: if I cut and paste a file in windows xp, is the creation data of the file modified?
Sometimes when people say cut and paste, they mean copy and paste. A copied file in Win XP will not bear the creation date of the original. An actual cut and paste is equivalent to Move, which does maintain the creation date. (Edit: even across volumes.)
If the modification date precedes the creation date, you can assume that something unusual happened, i.e., that the file was not created and updated in place. There could be several causes: perhaps the clock changed, perhaps it was copied from another location, etc.
Quite often, when a file is copied from external media, the source file system is FAT, which has distinctly different timestamp characteristics from NTFS. For example, if the modification time is truncated to an even number of seconds, that's an indication it may have been copied from a FAT device such as a flash drive.
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