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(@deltron)
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If there is a falshdrive in question and MAC times are important to the case.

Would it be the flashdrive grabs the MAC times when copying items to it from the local computer it is copying from?

 
Posted : 05/06/2015 8:00 am
(@athulin)
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Would it be the flashdrive grabs the MAC times when copying items to it from the local computer it is copying from?

The flash drive doesn't do anything on its own.

Most likely, in your case, the host operating system and its support for the file system present on the flash drive provides the time stamps.

However, particular software (e.g. Windows Shell, archiving software, etc.) may override the operating system/file system behaviour, usually to retain timestamps that are considered valuable. File archives may also contain one or more time stamps, which may (or may not) be restored when the files are extracted from the archive. Backup software behave much the same when files are restored. And download software may or may not use time stamps from the system from which the download is performed, or from the download package itself.

Interpreting a particular time stamp depends on your understanding of all these factors, separately, as well as collectively. And those, in turn, depend on your knowledge of the software that may be involved.

You may be able to exclude some of these based on your knowledge of the case.

 
Posted : 05/06/2015 11:27 am
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