Archived mail and "Date Modified" issue
Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2020 4:21 pm
So I switched from Windows 7 to Windows 10 at the same time that I switched from PP 4 to PP 5 so I don't know if this is a PP issue or a Windows issue but after some research I am fairly certain it is a PP issue.
If I archive an email and save it in a folder on my PC it has a "Date Modified" date of the day of the email. If I opened that email a few days later it kept the date of the original email, as long as I don't modify it. This is the way PP has always worked and I loved it. I never had a problem.
But now I notice that if I take an archived email from months ago and open it today PP changes the "Date Modified" to today's date. This is very annoying when I sort files by date modified. It places emails that are months old at the top just because I opened them to look at them. I did not modify the email; I only viewed it. Other files like text files, do not exhibit this behavior. As long as I don't change or modify a text file, I can open it and look at it a hundred times and it maintains the "last modified date" as the last date that I actually modified the file; not the last time I opened it.
1. Why does this happen now and it never used to before?
2. Is there anything I can do to get the old behavior back?
If I archive an email and save it in a folder on my PC it has a "Date Modified" date of the day of the email. If I opened that email a few days later it kept the date of the original email, as long as I don't modify it. This is the way PP has always worked and I loved it. I never had a problem.
But now I notice that if I take an archived email from months ago and open it today PP changes the "Date Modified" to today's date. This is very annoying when I sort files by date modified. It places emails that are months old at the top just because I opened them to look at them. I did not modify the email; I only viewed it. Other files like text files, do not exhibit this behavior. As long as I don't change or modify a text file, I can open it and look at it a hundred times and it maintains the "last modified date" as the last date that I actually modified the file; not the last time I opened it.
1. Why does this happen now and it never used to before?
2. Is there anything I can do to get the old behavior back?