Windows – When I send someone a file, are the details (Date created / Date modified / Owner / Computer) sent as well (by default)

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I have created a file asd.asd:

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I want to know when I email this file directly to other people, what kind of information (Date created / Date modified / Owner / Computer) will be exposed.

I am aware that I can "Remove properties and personal information". This question is: even if I do not specifically remove properties and personal information, will they be visible to the second party that downloaded my file?

Also, is there any difference in the details if instead of emailing the file directly, I zipped it up first and email it.

You can download the file at http://qweop.com/asd.zip

(I'm not talking about .txt files, but rather files in general)

Best Answer

As mentioned in Ignacio's answer, email only contains the contents of the file. But archives are different. This is the result of unzip -ql asd.zip (which lists the file contents).

  Length      Date    Time    Name
---------  ---------- -----   ----
       23  2011-07-12 14:10   asd.txt
---------                     -------
       23                     1 file

The time I guess matches with the modified date.

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