Find Creation Date of Video Files 1

[Error7]

After copying a few hundred .MP4 and .MOV files from various devices, I found that Windows incorrectly displays the 'Date Created' as the last modified date. I need to edit the video files in chronological order but despite many on-line searches to find a VB6 solution to viewing the actual Date Created I have drawn a blank.

Does anybody have any code snippets available to achieve this?

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[Andrzejek]

Could you show your actual VB 6 code here?
I would assume it would look something like:

OldFileName = Chr(34) & "E:\Photograph & Video\Caribbean Cruise 2020\All Video's\20200127\IMG_3723.MOV" & Chr(34)
NewFileName = Chr(34) & "E:\Photograph & Video\Caribbean Cruise 2020\All Video's\20200127\20200126 123056.MOV" & Chr(34)

FileCopy OldFileName, NewFileName

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[Error7]

Thanks Andy
After spending several hours trying to figure this out, I just discovered the problem.
My code interacts with a programme called MediaInfo.exe. Media info does all the hard work by writing all the exif data, including the Media Created date, to a text file.
I then open this text file and extract the Filepath\Filename and Media Created date and time, then reformat the date and time to create my new file names.
I just discovered (finally) that it precedes each entry in the text file with a space character.

So problem solved but thanks for responding.


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