Changing file created date

Thank Robert. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. User Moderator. Hello Robert, You can modify the date created by copying a file. Let us know if you need further assistance.

How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Along with typical hidden and read-only attributes, Attribute Changer allows you to modify file access and file creation dates, as well as other options.

You can double-check this by right-clicking your file, pressing Properties , and viewing your file attributes in the General and Details tabs. As the above methods show, there are plenty of ways to change file attributes on Windows 10 and which will, hopefully, get you into the habit of better file management on Windows. You could start by switching to a replacement for Windows Explorer to make it easier to sort and manage your files.

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The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Asked 7 years, 10 months ago. Active 7 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. Jishnu U Nair. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Modify via Samba I just confirmed that I'm able to do this using my Fedora 19 laptop which includes version 1. Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. JishnuUNair - can you check to see how the Samba share is being mounted with what options?

You can typically get these from the mount command and then look for the share you're accessing. Just a guess but it's likely being mounted use gvfs as a FUSE filesystem. A lot of filesystems now support a file creation time. See this question - unix. Graeme - yes I'd just referenced a similar method using stap: unix. While Linux does not support a creation time, a Samba share can.

Depending on how you set it up and xattr support in the file system , Samba has the ability to store some time stamps in Linux xattrs. That means it may be able to do things that the underlying file system cannot - like report a valid modifiable creation time.