When was file last accessed

In your case "file access". If you don't inform them the auditing could be illegal. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How can I know when a file was last read or accessed on Windows?

Ask Question. Asked 9 years, 9 months ago. Active 3 years, 1 month ago. Viewed 97k times. I need to determine if a particular file was accessed in the last, say, 2 days. Is this possible on Windows Server R2?

Improve this question. MikeyB 38k 9 9 gold badges 99 99 silver badges bronze badges. Oleg Vazhnev Oleg Vazhnev 4 4 gold badges 13 13 silver badges 26 26 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Ranbe also has more than six years of professional information-technology experience, specializing in computer architecture, operating systems, networking, server administration, virtualization and Web design.

By Ruri Ranbe. Related Articles. Open the file again and add some text in it, save. Check the timestamps, you'll see the modified time has changed as you would expect but still no change to the accessed time. Commands to Enable, disable and query last access time updates Open an elevated command prompt. Post Comment. Post Reply. I can see that they happened simultaneously so that can lead me to believe that Alice is selecting a large number of files and copying them to an external drive or possibly to a desktop.

The next step that I want to put in place is some proactive alerts in case these kinds of accesses happen again. From here I can create my alerts.