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Windows 7, file properties - is "date accessed" ALWAYS 100% accurate?
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Here's the situation: I went on vacation for a couple of weeks, but before I left, I took the harddrive out of my computer and hid it in a different location. Upon coming back on Monday and putting the harddrive back in my computer, I right-clicked on different files to see their properties. Intere…
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Fix for: Windows 7, file properties - is "date accessed" ALWAYS 100% accurate?
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Firstly, it depends on the filesystem on the drive. It's probably NTFS (FAT being worse). Time of last access on an NTFS volume is not very accurate. This is an extract of the MSDN pages about file times: Not all file systems can record creation and…
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