Internet Explorer 6

[Ascii2]

Internet Explorer 6 is able to download files. When it downloads files, the "Modified" date of the files is set to the date and time of the download ("the problem").

I want to have downloads via Internet Explorer to have the date and times of the files from the hosting servers of the download.

How can (if possible) Internet Explorer be made to retain original dates and times?

I am using Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4 or Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1 and Internet Explorer 6 with SP1.

[Jeremy]

Not sure but I do know that anything in a compressed archive will maintain the original modified date after you download and extract it.

As an alternative, you could use FileDate Changer v1.1 from Nirsoft to manually change the modified date of a selected file (if you know it).

[GrofLuigi]

I'm pretty sure it can't be done in IE6. Don't know about IE7.

Any half-decent download manager should have (has) that option. I can guarantee FlashGet has.

GL

Edited August 18, 2008 by GrofLuigi

[Ascii2]

Any half-decent download manager should have (has) that option. I can guarantee FlashGet has.

Indeed FlashGet has the optin (and functional by default).

I have thought of using other download software that may integrate into Internet Explorer and capable of downloading any files (which FlashGet is not capable). FlashGet may fail to download some files (especially when Javascript is used to pull the file).

[spacesurfer]

My guess is, it is probably not due to the browser itself, but windows, which will access the file as soon as it's downloaded and modify the time stamp.

There is a way to disable this feature of windows xp and may want to check this out:

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=564.

You may try it and see if it works.

[cluberti]

IE uses the CreateFile function to copy the file from it's temporary cache to the filesystem, thus the "modified" date will get the date/time of the file copy. You won't be able to do this without a 3rd party add-on.

[spacesurfer]

That's right, I forgot about that. That's why I hate downloading large files with IE. It doesn't check the file destination space like 3rd party will do.

[Ascii2]

My guess is, it is probably not due to the browser itself, but windows, which will access the file as soon as it's downloaded and modify the time stamp.

There is a way to disable this feature of windows xp and may want to check this out:

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=564.

You may try it and see if it works.

The link is to a procedure to disable Accessed timestamp, not the modified timestamp. I want to retain the original modified timstamp.

[Ascii2]

IE uses the CreateFile function to copy the file from it's temporary cache to the filesystem, thus the "modified" date will get the date/time of the file copy. You won't be able to do this without a 3rd party add-on.

I just attempted to copy some files using Windows Explorer. The file copies retained the Modified timestamp of the original copied files. Is the CreateFile function used by IE the same function used by Explorer?

I checked the Temporary Internet Files for downloaded files, but all files in the cache had Modified timestamps of the time the files were created (even files are were in the processes of downloading).

[Ascii2]

Any ideas as to what add-ons may allow downloading any file navegated to by Internet Explorer and retain original file date and time from server?