File Modified Date

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Why does the modified date change on a Powerpoint file
when I just open and close the file without saving it? I
am talking about the date that shows up in file explorer
when you have it set in 'Details' view.
 
Why does the modified date change on a Powerpoint file
when I just open and close the file without saving it? I
am talking about the date that shows up in file explorer
when you have it set in 'Details' view.
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Probably because it saves the total editing time and possibly other related
bits of info in Document Properties. To store it, it's got to write data back
to the file and that changes the file's date.

If this is a real problem, you might need to open the PPT files in the viewer
instead of PPT itself.

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If that's the case then a policy can be applied not to track editing time,
which should keep the time fixed.
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Interesting ... point me at how/where and I'll try this out.
It's come up several times before.

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Hi Steve,
In HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\General

Create:
NoTrack (DWORD) (0|1)

1 to disable tracking. Might need a restart.
If active it will show editing time = 0 mins in the statistics tab.


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Thanks Shyam.

I'll poke at that a bit and see how it works out.


Hi Steve,
In HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\General

Create:
NoTrack (DWORD) (0|1)

1 to disable tracking. Might need a restart.
If active it will show editing time = 0 mins in the statistics tab.
Click to expand...

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Hi Steve,
In HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\General

Create:
NoTrack (DWORD) (0|1)

1 to disable tracking. Might need a restart.
If active it will show editing time = 0 mins in the statistics tab.
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This is interesting. I haven't yet made any changes to the registry.

In PPT2000 and 2003, both under XP or XPHome, I've created a file, saved it to
the desktop and quit PPT. Then I restarted PPT by doubleclicking the file.
I've done this several times over the course of perhaps five minutes.

Created/Accessed/Modified dates all stay resolutely put. No changes to any of
them.

In one instance where this came up, wasn't a doc management system of some sort
involved?



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I tried the same and got similar results. Perplexed I changed the system by
a few hours and then repeated the excercise, sure enough the file access
times updated to the new time, merely by right-clicking on the files and
selecting properties.
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And here the same thing's happening now. I didn't change anything, just left the files
untouched until I read your msg, doubleclicked to start PPT, closed PPT. Now it's got a
new Last Accessed date.

So it seems that it takes X hours of time difference between the file/internal date and
system clock to make PPT do its trick. But it's apparently nothing to do with doc
statistics as I'd guessed. Though the last accessed date/time has changed on this file,
the Revision number's still at 1 and total editing time is a grand total of 0 minutes. Big
complex file, you understand. ;-)


For most part I agree with the findings of this poster:
http://groups.google.co.in/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&[email protected]
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