File Creation Time

[SK]

I have a file. i get the creation time using
File.GetCreatio nTime. then i go and delete that file. and
then create it again and print the File.GetCreatio nTime.
It is giving me the old creation time itself...y is it
so..?

[cody]

> I have a file. i get the creation time using

File.GetCreatio nTime. then i go and delete that file. and
then create it again and print the File.GetCreatio nTime.
It is giving me the old creation time itself...y is it
so..?

normally not.

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[sk]

it would be better if u try it out and give an answer.

-----Original Message-----

I have a file. i get the creation time using
File.GetCreatio nTime. then i go and delete that file. and then create it again and print the File.GetCreatio nTime.
It is giving me the old creation time itself...y is it
so..?

normally not.

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[Victor Urnyshev [MSFT]]

Hi,

The behaviour you see is the operating system behaviour and I belive you
can see it only for the file names less than 8.3 chars long.
In order to prevent long file name losses when old applications operate the
files using short files names (8.3), the operating system tracks
delete/create operations, and if an app creates a file with the name same
as a short name of recently deleted file, the OS assumes this is the same
file. It assigns back the long name and the creation time. Although your
application is a .Net application that supports long file names, in your
case you probably try to create a file with name not longer than 8 chars
and extension not longer than 3 chars. I.e. from OS point of view it looks
like an old file name format.

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|> I have a file. i get the creation time using
|> File.GetCreatio nTime. then i go and delete that file. and
|> then create it again and print the File.GetCreatio nTime.
|> It is giving me the old creation time itself...y is it
|> so..?
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|normally not.
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