Viewing the original creation date of a file which has been sent over the internet.?

Question

My dilemma: I am trying to put a date to on a .mov video file that was recorded with an iphone and then sent, presumably from the phone itself, via email. The creation date on the video seems to be the date it was sent (I checked this by sending an old video to myself and it held true) rather than the date it was originally created. Is there some way around this or am I screwed?

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Thanks

Answer 1

right-click file > properties > details tab will give you the most information.

Windows has a nasty habbit of setting the creation date of a file to the time that you've saved it from your email. It doesn't keep the creation date from the original file. I can't believe that they still haven't done anything about this "bug".

You should check with the owner of the file to check on the original file.

Answer 2

On a windows machine right click on it and select properties and go through the tabs. Funnily enough in the past I have found that by changing the file extension from say .pub to .doc you can get more info !

Answer 3

It sounds like you're too late. You CAN sometimes recover files from an erased hard drive, but it's a forensic operation, so I doubt you're willing to put that much effort into it.