For some reason, .eml files are reported in Folder Compare to have different dates when I know the file has not been changed. For example, the files might be:
Left folder
Population numbers.eml 04/22/2009
Average effects.pdf 04/25/2009
.....
Right folder
Population numbers.eml 01/22/2010
Average effects.pdf 04/25/2009
.....
The problem is that I know that the .eml file in, say, the right folder (see above) has not changed since 4/22/2009, and yet BC says that ti is today's date. The line of text is also blue indicating that the file is newer. The date is always the current date and the time is sometime during the day. The configuration is always that the file on the left is my USB drive and the file on the lright is in a folder on the hard drive of the computer I am using.
I use the USB to transfer all the files in a "MyFolder" structure that I have created on my computers at home and at work between the two machines, when I leave in the morning to go to work and when I leave work to go home. I use BC to figure out which files I need to copy to take to work or bring home.
The problem is that, when I start my USB drive in order to copy the files that I have worked on during the day on my comptuer at work (or in the evening on my computer at home) to the other computer, some of the .eml files in the MyFolder structures on the right has the current date when I _know_ I have not touched them during the session.
Why does this happen?
It only happens to the .eml files, which are email text files. My email program is Thunderbird.
What appears to be happening is that sometime during a work session, for some reason, BC is opening the .eml file, or somehow resetting its file time and date to the current time and date even though I have NOT read the email.
Why does this only happen to .eml files?
These updated .eml files do not occur unless in I leave the USB drive plugged into my computer for a long time period.
These .eml files only have changed dates sometimes, not every work session.
Thank you.
John Wirt
Left folder
Population numbers.eml 04/22/2009
Average effects.pdf 04/25/2009
.....
Right folder
Population numbers.eml 01/22/2010
Average effects.pdf 04/25/2009
.....
The problem is that I know that the .eml file in, say, the right folder (see above) has not changed since 4/22/2009, and yet BC says that ti is today's date. The line of text is also blue indicating that the file is newer. The date is always the current date and the time is sometime during the day. The configuration is always that the file on the left is my USB drive and the file on the lright is in a folder on the hard drive of the computer I am using.
I use the USB to transfer all the files in a "MyFolder" structure that I have created on my computers at home and at work between the two machines, when I leave in the morning to go to work and when I leave work to go home. I use BC to figure out which files I need to copy to take to work or bring home.
The problem is that, when I start my USB drive in order to copy the files that I have worked on during the day on my comptuer at work (or in the evening on my computer at home) to the other computer, some of the .eml files in the MyFolder structures on the right has the current date when I _know_ I have not touched them during the session.
Why does this happen?
It only happens to the .eml files, which are email text files. My email program is Thunderbird.
What appears to be happening is that sometime during a work session, for some reason, BC is opening the .eml file, or somehow resetting its file time and date to the current time and date even though I have NOT read the email.
Why does this only happen to .eml files?
These updated .eml files do not occur unless in I leave the USB drive plugged into my computer for a long time period.
These .eml files only have changed dates sometimes, not every work session.
Thank you.
John Wirt
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