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LordEntrails
October 28th, 2023, 23:10
So interestingly, I have found that the file time and date for an exported module is sometimes incorrect. For example, within a few minutes of each other, I have exported two different modules; One has a current time and date, the other is shown with the wrong day, month, year and time. See highlighted items on screen shot of modules folder:
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There are only two things I are different about the development campaigns that I can tell; 1) file size, as you can see, UM01 is very large, lots of maps while TimeAndDate is only a couple of small stories, and 2) UM01 comes from a campaign that was originally created in FGC (but still being opened, edited and exported in FGU), while TimeAndDate is a fairly new FGU campaign.

johnecc
October 28th, 2023, 23:54
Hi, only thing that comes to mind is, at the top of the time/dare column, does it say Date Created or Date Modified? Date Created will always stay the same, while Date Modified will reflect the last change.

You can right-click and select properties to see both timestamps for each file.

LordEntrails
October 29th, 2023, 01:48
Date Modified. And I deleted UM01.mod via the O/S and recreated via FG to make sure it was getting created new.

Trenloe
October 29th, 2023, 08:47
This is going to be an operating system thing. Right click on the file, and select "Properties". What do the Created, Modified and Accessed entries show?

LordEntrails
October 29th, 2023, 16:37
Modified and Accessed look right. Even though I deleted the file from the O/S before re-exporting it, maybe the o/s didn't clean the file name and remembered the original modified date? Interesting, I thought the "Date" column in Windows defaulted to the Modified Date, but apparently it is showing the Created Date.