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Hi Everyone

I'm after a NAS drive and like the look of the Buffalo LinkStation Pro Duo. I have a particular requirement though which most NAS devices seem to fail. When editing a previously saved document (Word etc), does the Buffalo change the created date to the modified date, so both are the same, or does it leave the created date as is - as it should?  The Freecom devices do this and they seem unable to fix it. If anyone can test for me that would be very much appreciated!!!!

rob

Pretty sure the created date stays the same even after editting, i'll test it now and let you know.

excellent, many thanks. I'm using Windows 7 if that makes any difference!

Is buffalo support good, as Freecom is dire..!

I'm based in Europe so cannot say anything about US support, however if i ever needed anything they have always been very accomodating.

Unfortunately it appears the created data is also altered when the file is modified :-(

This is probably due to the file system being used (XFS)

i have tested the same thing, and you are right!

But also when i copy the file to an ext3 (on a linux system) and modify the file, i see the same thing happening.

As a last test i copied this file to mu C:\TEMP\ folder, and edit it......

Same result again! (The dates after 'Created:', 'Modified:' and 'Accessed:' are the same (and equal)

This might also be caused by the application i used to test this (LibreOffice Writer)