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originally Creation Date of a Document

hello, i have a file with documents.

i wrote a applikation with asp.net.

i need to read the creation date and the date of the last change (and title, etc.) for that i used the API filesysteminfo.

in the file are documents, that are a copy of a vss server. but when a document is copied, the date of creation changes to the "date of copy". but i need the original date of creation.

any idea?

greetings

If the file has been overwritten, you will not be able to get the creation date that is stored in SourceSafe.

You may have more luck using the SourceSafe API, however this uses OLE automation, so may not be very simple.

Oded 2010-02-18 11:44:52

i just copy the document.then this copy is in my file.BUT then the "new date of creation" is the date when the "copy is created"

Tyzak 2010-02-18 11:53:43

it's not overwritten,i want to keep the original date in the document, when i copy it, and to read this date from the document in the new file

Tyzak 2010-02-18 12:32:44

You say "read this date from the document" - how is it stored in the document? How do you manually view it?

Oded 2010-02-18 12:39:27

hm, ok, it is normally stored on my computer (later on a server), right mouse click, then the last point "propeties" ? vss document --> copy to my pcdocument on my pc has a new creation date ( maybe because it's new?)i want to read from the doc from my pc the date, but the original date, nut this new one..i hope i explained some how ok :>

Tyzak 2010-02-18 13:04:55

VSS overwrites the old file when you get latest, so it now has a new created date. You can't get the created date of the document that was replaced. You will have to query VSS directly to get that information (see the link and read the linked articles in it for details).

Oded 2010-02-18 14:15:44

i dont replace an artikel, i just copy an document into a folder which is empty.when i take a look @ the creation date in this folder it's the date when i put the document from vss into this folder.2009 i create a doc in vss.2010 i put this doc into a folder on the serverthe doc has been created 2009,but when i look @ the folder on the server, it says 2010, but it should say 2009 :>

Tyzak 2010-02-18 14:22:14

sorry i didn't explained it good at the beginning,when i copy a document, the creationtime ist set to the time when i copy the document.when i copy a document from C: to D: then has the doc. in D: an other creation time ( the time when i did copy it)

Tyzak 2010-02-18 14:39:09

The creation date refers to the date the file was created on disk (so, if you copy to another drive/folder, the date would be the date it was copied). This is how windows works.

Oded 2010-02-18 14:55:28

ah okay,is there some kind of workaround? :>or what should i do? :>

Tyzak 2010-02-19 10:53:27

i solved the problem with robocopy

robocopy source destination [parameter]

default it copies Data, Attributes and Timestamp

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733145%28WS.10%29.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/confirmation.aspx?familyId=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displayLang=en

Tyzak 2010-02-22 10:13:30

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