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ChasA - 13 Mar 2008 15:55 GMT

When my customer saves an attachment to an email, he wants to retain the
original file creation date. However, he reports that the file creation date
is always the date he saves it. Any suggestions on how to retain the
original file creation date? He is on Windows XP Professional SP2, Office
2003.

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Brian Tillman - 13 Mar 2008 16:39 GMT

> When my customer saves an attachment to an email, he wants to retain
> the original file creation date. However, he reports that the file
> creation date is always the date he saves it.

How is he doing this? Is he opening it from Outlook, making changes, then
saving it? Is he saving it directly (i.e., clicking the icon and choosing
Save As)?

> Any suggestions on how
> to retain the original file creation date? He is on Windows XP
> Professional SP2, Office 2003.

Have the sender zip the document before sending it. Extracting it from the
zip file should retain the dates.

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ChasA - 13 Mar 2008 16:58 GMT

Thanks, Brian. Customer seems to "remember" this didn't used to be the case,
believes something has changed recently. Is this (not retaining file
creation dates when saved as attachments to Outlook) the default behavior?
Perhaps the customer is not remembering properly?

ChasA

> > When my customer saves an attachment to an email, he wants to retain
> > the original file creation date. However, he reports that the file
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> Have the sender zip the document before sending it. Extracting it from the
> zip file should retain the dates.

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