Modified Time Updates

Detlef Lammermann detlef.lammermann at er.materna.de
Mon Jan 21 03:17:03 GMT 2002


Adrian Snyman schrieb:
> 
> We hav been experiencing a problem on our Samba server for a while now.
> When opening an XLS file in a share using MS Excel, the modified time
> gets updated - even though the file was never modified ..
> This becoes frustrating for the managers who scan a share for modified
> files ..
> 
> This appears to be specific to Excel, as the MS Word documents are fine. I
> am not really a windows user, so I am not too sure if it is some sort of
> "auto-save" feature .. although it does happen to all Excel users on the
> Network (All have default installations)
> 
> Any pointers greatly appreciated ..

As far as I know, this is an Excel "feature". Time is updated on opening,
and reset on closing, if the file is not modified.


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