Im using the €œWord 2000 Web Archive Converter€� (warchcnv.exe 1/27/2000),
See:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Which is very helpful for converting collections of Internet Explorer plus
its sub-files into one MHT file; and greatly accelerates disk backups, as
well as saves on backup disk space. However it unfortunately replaces the
files original date with todays date, which is a significant loss of very
useful directory information. Can the original date be maintained?

I also get a warning or error message each time, which reads:
€œThere was a problem saving €˜file-name to the current location. Do you
want to save it to your desktop? Yes No€� I then select Yes.

Could this be related to the date issue; since it doesnt actually replace
the original file, but places a new archival copy on the desktop? Which
isnt any problem; but typing dates into the file name itself to retain the
date information is a very slow task when you have more than a 1000 to do;
and hopefully a completely unnecessary effort; since the date of any
identical copy is pretty irrelevant compared to the last date of editing, and
makes sorting files by date an impossibility. Is there any utility to edit a
files directory date, in case the converter insists on putting in todays
date; or perhaps any outside vendor of such MHT conversion software that
could archive a list of files at a time?

?B?enp6?= wrote in
:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...A275CA6B-95F1-
4FE0-BAE4-56E0A61BF936&displaylang=en

The following from that page:

"A Web Archive file allows you to package a Web page and its supporting
files into a single file. A Web Archive file has the .mht extension and
does not make changes to the original Web page."
end of quote

This tool was intended for manipulating web pages rather than Word docs!
I hope that is what you are using it for when you used the term?

"converting collections of Internet Explorer plus
its sub-files into one MHT file"

There are tools for both batch edititing of html pages and tools for
editing files creation dates.
The reason the new dates are created each session is because you are
creating a new MHT/backup. NOT editing an existing file. (The same happens
when you create a file to a CD or DVD.


Your really creating plenty of extra work and problems for yourself by
attempting to reinvent the wheel.

A tool has existed for these type of back-ups for more than 25 years.
Today that software is called WINZIP.
The files contained within the ZIP will maintain their original Explorer
creation date.

Using an unstable Word Utility (and beyond its intended use) to archive
data is NOT a good idea!
Most especially if the data contained in the files is important.
I would advise seeking some assitance and guidance from another for
archival and/or back-up methods.