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I have an application that reads files from a database via a webservice call. I save the files in a folder at the client and every time the client connects to the server I bring the new updates and update the local client files. My question is what the properties of the file that will stay the same in client and the server side to use them in the comparison process taking into account the file version doesn't change very often. I used the creation date and the last write date and OS assigns a new date once the file is copied from the server to the client.

 Your help is appreciated

 Ala

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When it copies the files all of the date properties change with it, since technically it is a new file. However, you can change the date properties to match the old when when you are copying them using

File.SetCreationTime(string path, DateTime creationTime)

and File.GetCreationTime(string path) to read the original times from the file you are trying to copy.

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Cheers,
     Kevin