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jblakley
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All,

I was looking on a portable drive, and I'd noticed that none of the accessed files had the date changed to what I had expected them to be changed to. I found out that you have to enable this option to modify the LA timestamp because it's disabled by default. What other properties can I look at in the file to be able to prove it was accessed on the date that I was expecting that it was?

Thanks!


   
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Welshie
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Hi, what were you "looking" at them with ?, and what file system is the OS partition, NTFS ?


   
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Go to RUN Command Box, ensure that you have run this program with Administrator rights

Type this in the Prompt…

fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 0

Press Enter, reboot… Viola… That's it.. It's now Enabled…


   
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BTW Welshie, Time Stamps has nothing to do with what type of partitioning or HDD Format.. It's the OS's…


   
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(@rich2005)
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Not in the file….but recent LNK files.


   
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Well, he says, LA (Last Access) Files… What is LNK Files?

The portable Drive Files, etc.. are all Time Stamped By Windows….


   
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Welshie
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RickC,

Are you sure there is no difference when examining file name attribute times, in the file allocation table on FAT, or MFT on NFTS ?


   
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Why not just try using the command for the prompt and check it out? It's disabled by defaults and all I did was turn it back on. It Time Stamp the entire windows system… Etc… File that is in, say, Fat, NTFS, and/or Unallocated Space. Or Allocated space..

The best thing we can do is actually test it, there's no harm in the command I gave in the previous thread.


   
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Here is my issue with the thread

I was looking on a portable drive,

Is that all there is? Is there no other computer to reference to it? Win 7 is mentioned - but…What is the file system on the portable device?


   
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