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Old 11-20-2008
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Originally Posted by jim mcnamara View Post
Are you sure you stated the requirement correctly. By definition, any file that exists in a directory has to be older than "now", even if it is still open for writing.
Normally, yes, Jim. But the directory can also be populated in numerous ways in which the timestamp of the incoming file is changed to match that of the original, for instance. (Why the original files would be dated in the future I can only imagine. Perhaps they are batch files meant to run once their timestamp is valid.)