The Old New Thing

Psychic debugging: When I copy a file to the clipboard and then paste it, I get an old version of the file

December 29, 2010 Dec 29, 2010 12/29/10

Raymond Chen

A customer reported the following strange problem: I tried to copy some text files from my computer to another computer on the network. After the copy completes, I looked at the network directory and found that while it did contain files with the same names as the ones I copied, they have completely wrong timestamps. Curious, I opened up the...