leslyekahn

To save room on our company server, any case that we had that was closed and no longer needed to be referenced, was burned onto a cd. Until recently, the cd sat on my desk in case anybody needed anything from it. Well, that day came. The problem is this...

Every file on the CD has a modified date of when I burned the files to the cd and not the actual last modified date. Well, being that I work for attorneys, they want the date the document was actually last modifed and not saved to CD.

Is there a way to burn files to a cd without changing the modified date to the date of burning? I'd like to continue to clean old files off the server this way, but if the modified date keeps changing, I won't be able to.

Microsoft tech support wants $295 to answer this problem. Anybody got a solution for free?

Any help is greatly, greatly appreciated.

Leslye Kahn
Atlanta, GA

ebackhus

The thing to look for is the last time the actual data in the files was modified. That's different from the creation date.

leslyekahn

Now that the information is on the cd and no longer on the server, I don't have an original creation date - just the modified date (date burned to cd).

ebackhus

That ought to be a part of the file itself. It depends on what program you're using and the actual save properties of the files themselves.

leslyekahn

Unfortunately, every date on every file is the date is was burned.

What I did was copy them from the server onto the CD drive. Once all my files were moved, I "wrote files to cd". No specific burning program except for what comes with XP Pro.

ebackhus

That may have been what did it. I rarely if ever use the built-in burning ability of XP so I don't know all of how it works.

leslyekahn

I guess it's too late now, but for the future, I've only got the following burning software: NTI CD Maker 6 Standard. I guess I'll have to give that a try.