(Msg. 17) Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 6:59 pm
Post subject: Re: Help, something changed the dates on my files !!! [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: microsoft>public>win98>gen_discussion (more info?)
On Jun 11, 4:11 pm, "PCR" <pcr....TakeThisOut@netzero.net> wrote:
> PCR wrote:
> > PCR wrote:
>
> > ...snip...
> >> To get Created Date to be the current date, move it out & then back
> >> in to its current folder. I'm not sure whether Windows will just
> >> give an error message, though, if it sees the Created Dated to be
> >> later than the current date. If so, run ScanDisk first. That will
> >> set Created Date to 01-01-1980.
>
> > Well, that appears to be untrue-- sorry! Windows won't change Created
> > Date on a file moved from folder to folder. And it doesn't give an
> > error message, either, if it's greater than today's date!
>
> > ...snip
>
> Oh, God! Now it's working the way I originally said! Moving a file to a
> new folder changes its Created Date to today's date-- but I'm through
> with it! You figure it out!
>
> --
> Thanks or Good Luck,
> There may be humor in this post, and,
> Naturally, you will not sue,
> Should things get worse after this,
> PCR
> pcr....TakeThisOut@netzero.net- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
NO WAY!
Being afraid to simply delete the three files, I changed their dates
and then one by one replaced them by running the ScanReg
So hopefully everything is back to normal now.
I believe the datae changes when I hit a 'bad' yahoo website:
While looking for information on magnetic fields I was redirected from
a google search to a yahoo run thread of email postings. Totally
bombed my system and hung it so bad had to power off to get back. I
cleared everything, but didn't notice the date change.
(Msg. 18) Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:09 pm
Post subject: Re: Help, something changed the dates on my files !!! [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
Robert Macy wrote:
> On Jun 9, 3:49 pm, "PCR" <pcr... DeleteThis @netzero.net> wrote:
>> Robert Macy wrote:
>> > On Jun 8, 3:22 pm, "PCR" <pcr... DeleteThis @netzero.net> wrote:
>> >>..snip..
>> >> Very good. Maybe look at your Registry backups to see their dates
>> >> are OK...
>>
>> >> C:\WINDOWS\SYSBCKUP>DIR RB*.cab /od
>> >> Directory of C:\WINDOWS\SYSBCKUP
>> >> RBBAD CAB 1,575,664 09-19-07 5:56p RBBAD.CAB
>> >> RB000 CAB 1,656,776 06-02-09 6:31p rb000.cab
>> >> RB001 CAB 1,656,869 06-03-09 6:30p rb001.cab
>> >> RB002 CAB 1,657,192 06-04-09 7:07p rb002.cab
>> >> RB005 CAB 1,656,905 06-05-09 9:27p rb005.cab
>> >> RB003 CAB 1,656,011 06-08-09 3:59p rb003.cab
>> >> 6 file(s) 9,859,417 bytes
>>
>> >> There should be at least one of today's date (if you've booted
>> >> today). RBbad.cab can be very old. But none should have a higher
>> >> date than today's date! These (except RBbad.cab) are supposed to
>> >> drop away as they get old-- but you'd have to wait for the future
>> >> date to be reached for a future one to go on its own!
>>
>> > Thanks for this thought. There were three there that had ridiculous
>> > dates of Dec 2009.
>>
>> > How do I get rid of those three?
>>
>> Make them older than today & eventually they will delete on their
>> own. A new one is created on the 1st boot per day. When that happens
>> (if there are more than 5 not counting RBBAD) the oldest is
>> automatically deleted. To get more than one per day, you must
>> "START, Run, ScanReg" on your own. That will ask you whether to
>> create another.
>>
>> By the way, I've been playing a bit with SetFileDate. Well, I was
>> wrong about Created Date getting changed simply by moving a file to
>> a new folder. It seems both Created Date & Modified Date remain the
>> same in the circumstance. Sheesh! So-- good thing for SetFileDate!
>> Thanks again for that!
>>
>> > Robert
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> can I just delete the three with the ridiculous dates?
Yes. New ones will auto-create at each 1st boot per day, as I said
earlier. You'll get to 5 again that way. When 5 is reached, it will be
maintained by an auto-delete of the oldest. It is very important for the
oldest to be older than the current date!
> I tried START/RUN/ScanReg six time in a row and I have three with Dec
> 2009 and only the two recent ones have the immediate times on them
That proves it: They are protected from auto-deletion until their future
date is reached. Either delete them, or use that SetFileDate to make
their Modified Dates (& possibly their Created Dates also) to be dates
older than today, as I said earlier.
> How to get rid of those three?
>
> Robert
--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
Should things get worse after this,
PCR
pcrrcp DeleteThis @netzero.net
(Msg. 19) Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:11 pm
Post subject: Re: Help, something changed the dates on my files !!! [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
PCR wrote:
> PCR wrote:
>
> ...snip...
>> To get Created Date to be the current date, move it out & then back
>> in to its current folder. I'm not sure whether Windows will just
>> give an error message, though, if it sees the Created Dated to be
>> later than the current date. If so, run ScanDisk first. That will
>> set Created Date to 01-01-1980.
>
> Well, that appears to be untrue-- sorry! Windows won't change Created
> Date on a file moved from folder to folder. And it doesn't give an
> error message, either, if it's greater than today's date!
>
>
> ...snip
Oh, God! Now it's working the way I originally said! Moving a file to a
new folder changes its Created Date to today's date-- but I'm through
with it! You figure it out!
--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
Should things get worse after this,
PCR
pcrrcp DeleteThis @netzero.net
(Msg. 20) Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:07 pm
Post subject: Re: Help, something changed the dates on my files !!! [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
Robert Macy wrote:
> On Jun 11, 4:11 pm, "PCR" <pcr....DeleteThis@netzero.net> wrote:
>> PCR wrote:
>> > PCR wrote:
>>
>> > ...snip...
>> >> To get Created Date to be the current date, move it out & then
>> >> back in to its current folder. I'm not sure whether Windows will
>> >> just give an error message, though, if it sees the Created Dated
>> >> to be later than the current date. If so, run ScanDisk first.
>> >> That will set Created Date to 01-01-1980.
>>
>> > Well, that appears to be untrue-- sorry! Windows won't change
>> > Created Date on a file moved from folder to folder. And it doesn't
>> > give an error message, either, if it's greater than today's date!
>>
>> > ...snip
>>
>> Oh, God! Now it's working the way I originally said! Moving a file
>> to a new folder changes its Created Date to today's date-- but I'm
>> through with it! You figure it out!
>>
>> --
>> Thanks or Good Luck,
>> There may be humor in this post, and,
>> Naturally, you will not sue,
>> Should things get worse after this,
>> PCR
>> pcr....DeleteThis@netzero.net- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> NO WAY! >
> Being afraid to simply delete the three files, I changed their dates
> and then one by one replaced them by running the ScanReg
All right. Very good. It's very bad to have post-dated Registry backups.
You'd otherwise have to wait for that date to be passed for the
post-dated ones to get replaced on their own (once you've fixed the
system date). Until then, just the remaining two slots would be getting
auto-replaced at each day's 1st boot, because the one of the oldest date
is the one replaced. If you looked quick enough (after fixing the system
date), the greater date of the two backups that had a good date was the
date of the mishap, because the backup is done at boot (not at
shutdown).
> So hopefully everything is back to normal now.
As far as the Registry backup process-- yep, all is well & good now.
> I believe the datae changes when I hit a 'bad' yahoo website:
> While looking for information on magnetic fields I was redirected from
> a google search to a yahoo run thread of email postings. Totally
> bombed my system and hung it so bad had to power off to get back. I
> cleared everything, but didn't notice the date change.
Something must have changed your system date &/or time zone. A normal
crash wouldn't do that. Keep an eye on that date & time zone for a bit
by D-Clkng the clock on a daily basis.
> Robert
--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
Should things get worse after this,
PCR
pcrrcp.DeleteThis@netzero.net
(Msg. 21) Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 12:47 pm
Post subject: Re: Help, something changed the dates on my files !!! [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
On Jun 12, 7:07 pm, "PCR" <pcr... RemoveThis @netzero.net> wrote:
> Robert Macy wrote:
> > On Jun 11, 4:11 pm, "PCR" <pcr... RemoveThis @netzero.net> wrote:
> >> PCR wrote:
> >> > PCR wrote:
>
> >> > ...snip...
> >> >> To get Created Date to be the current date, move it out & then
> >> >> back in to its current folder. I'm not sure whether Windows will
> >> >> just give an error message, though, if it sees the Created Dated
> >> >> to be later than the current date. If so, run ScanDisk first.
> >> >> That will set Created Date to 01-01-1980.
>
> >> > Well, that appears to be untrue-- sorry! Windows won't change
> >> > Created Date on a file moved from folder to folder. And it doesn't
> >> > give an error message, either, if it's greater than today's date!
>
> >> > ...snip
>
> >> Oh, God! Now it's working the way I originally said! Moving a file
> >> to a new folder changes its Created Date to today's date-- but I'm
> >> through with it! You figure it out!
>
> >> --
> >> Thanks or Good Luck,
> >> There may be humor in this post, and,
> >> Naturally, you will not sue,
> >> Should things get worse after this,
> >> PCR
> >> pcr... RemoveThis @netzero.net- Hide quoted text -
>
> >> - Show quoted text -
>
> > NO WAY! >
> > Being afraid to simply delete the three files, I changed their dates
> > and then one by one replaced them by running the ScanReg
>
> All right. Very good. It's very bad to have post-dated Registry backups.
> You'd otherwise have to wait for that date to be passed for the
> post-dated ones to get replaced on their own (once you've fixed the
> system date). Until then, just the remaining two slots would be getting
> auto-replaced at each day's 1st boot, because the one of the oldest date
> is the one replaced. If you looked quick enough (after fixing the system
> date), the greater date of the two backups that had a good date was the
> date of the mishap, because the backup is done at boot (not at
> shutdown).
>
> > So hopefully everything is back to normal now.
>
> As far as the Registry backup process-- yep, all is well & good now.
>
> > I believe the datae changes when I hit a 'bad' yahoo website:
> > While looking for information on magnetic fields I was redirected from
> > a google search to a yahoo run thread of email postings. Totally
> > bombed my system and hung it so bad had to power off to get back. I
> > cleared everything, but didn't notice the date change.
>
> Something must have changed your system date &/or time zone. A normal
> crash wouldn't do that. Keep an eye on that date & time zone for a bit
> by D-Clkng the clock on a daily basis.
>
> > Robert
>
> --
> Thanks or Good Luck,
> There may be humor in this post, and,
> Naturally, you will not sue,
> Should things get worse after this,
> PCR
> pcr... RemoveThis @netzero.net- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
Thanks for all the help. Will keep a watch on that date.
Is it just me, or have more and more websites been tying my Win98 IE
up in knots? It's as though all the latest whiz bang websites assume
EVERYONE has DSL and 10GB of space were designed a multitude of
'sloppy' software people.
(Msg. 22) Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 7:06 pm
Post subject: Re: Help, something changed the dates on my files !!! [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
Robert Macy wrote:
> On Jun 12, 7:07 pm, "PCR" <pcr....RemoveThis@netzero.net> wrote:
>> Robert Macy wrote:
>> > On Jun 11, 4:11 pm, "PCR" <pcr....RemoveThis@netzero.net> wrote:
>> >> PCR wrote:
>> >> > PCR wrote:
>>
>> >> > ...snip...
>> >> >> To get Created Date to be the current date, move it out & then
>> >> >> back in to its current folder. I'm not sure whether Windows
>> >> >> will just give an error message, though, if it sees the
>> >> >> Created Dated to be later than the current date. If so, run
>> >> >> ScanDisk first. That will set Created Date to 01-01-1980.
>>
>> >> > Well, that appears to be untrue-- sorry! Windows won't change
>> >> > Created Date on a file moved from folder to folder. And it
>> >> > doesn't give an error message, either, if it's greater than
>> >> > today's date!
>>
>> >> > ...snip
>>
>> >> Oh, God! Now it's working the way I originally said! Moving a file
>> >> to a new folder changes its Created Date to today's date-- but I'm
>> >> through with it! You figure it out!
>>
>>
>> >> - Show quoted text -
>>
>> > NO WAY! >>
>> > Being afraid to simply delete the three files, I changed their
>> > dates and then one by one replaced them by running the ScanReg
>>
>> All right. Very good. It's very bad to have post-dated Registry
>> backups. You'd otherwise have to wait for that date to be passed for
>> the post-dated ones to get replaced on their own (once you've fixed
>> the system date). Until then, just the remaining two slots would be
>> getting auto-replaced at each day's 1st boot, because the one of the
>> oldest date is the one replaced. If you looked quick enough (after
>> fixing the system date), the greater date of the two backups that
>> had a good date was the date of the mishap, because the backup is
>> done at boot (not at shutdown).
>>
>> > So hopefully everything is back to normal now.
>>
>> As far as the Registry backup process-- yep, all is well & good now.
>>
>> > I believe the datae changes when I hit a 'bad' yahoo website:
>> > While looking for information on magnetic fields I was redirected
>> > from a google search to a yahoo run thread of email postings.
>> > Totally bombed my system and hung it so bad had to power off to
>> > get back. I cleared everything, but didn't notice the date change.
>>
>> Something must have changed your system date &/or time zone. A normal
>> crash wouldn't do that. Keep an eye on that date & time zone for a
>> bit by D-Clkng the clock on a daily basis.
>>
>> > Robert
>>
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> Thanks for all the help. Will keep a watch on that date.
>
> Is it just me, or have more and more websites been tying my Win98 IE
> up in knots? It's as though all the latest whiz bang websites assume
> EVERYONE has DSL and 10GB of space were designed a multitude of
> 'sloppy' software people.
It's me too (on dial-up at 52000 bps)-- you're right about that! It's a
dirty, rotten shame-- because there still are many sites quick as
lightning! I'm thinking some of it is NetZero trying to get me to
upgrade to their $15.00 version. Also, the slowest sites must have a
deal with DSL people to slow us up!
> Robert
--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
Should things get worse after this,
PCR
pcrrcp.RemoveThis@netzero.net
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