On 2007-04-07, at 22:24, Lennox Jacob wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was going through the REALbasic Tutorial (TextEditor-ch9.rbp)  
> again and I noticed that when a file is created and then modified,  
> both the Creation and Modification Dates and Times are always  
> updated to the date and time of saving.
>
> If the file is closed then reopened and modified, again the  
> Creation and Modification Dates and Times are the date and time of  
> saving.
>
> How can that be corrected so that the Creation date and time  
> remains unchanged whilst the Modification date and time of saving  
> be updated?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Lennox
>

something like this

if File Exists then
read old date to a variable
write new file
newfile.CreationDate = olddate
end if

(check the LR folderitems about date and time stamps on files)
Sven E



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