>>>>>Hi,
>>>>> If you open a windows explorer and right-click on
>>>>>on a file name (say MY_TEXT.TXT) and then left-click
>>>>>on Properties, the File "Accessed" Date is one of the
>>>>>three dates that is presents (the other two are Date
>>>>>"Created" and Date "Modified").
>>>>> Is there an API function or a VFP function that
>>>>>will return the File "Accessed" Date?
>>>>>Thanks!
>>>>>Terry Harris
>>>>
>>>>This is available either with the Windows Script Host or through the API.>>>>* lcfile is the file name to look at.
>>>>oFile = oFSO.GetFile(lcfile)
>>>>? oFile.DateLastAccessedIf this isn't an option you can use my Windows Time or Window Filenames programming from the download section.
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks George for the reply.
>>>When I use the following code in a PRG, the Date Last Accessed
>>>is always today's date. What's up?
>>>
>>>

>>>oFSO = CreateObject( "Scripting.FileSystemObject")
>>>lcFile = GetFile()
>>>oFile = oFSO.GetFile(lcFile)
>>>? oFile.DateLastAccessed
>>>WAIT
>>>

>>
>>Terry,
>>
>>It's pretty simple. When you selected the file via GETFILE() you accessed it, and thus, the date/time stamp changed.
>
>George,
> This may be something like the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
>If you touch it, you change it.
>Can you think of a way to get the DateLastAccessed of files in a
>folder without changing the date in the process?
>Thanks,

Terry,

If you know the file name ahead of time and it's in the current default directory, you can simply pass the file name without the path.

Also, there's programming in my Windows Time programming that, when possible, re-sets the last accessed timestamp.

George

Ubi caritas et amor, deus ibi est