Always Rebuilding with no files changed

[Randy C]

I got into this situation before, and can't figure out how I fixed it. I happened when I copied all the files in a project folder from one PC to another over a nework. The project is intact, but anytime I go to exectute
the application, VC5 tells me that all my object files are either missing or need re-building. Needless to say, this is cutting into my productivity BIG time. I tried deleting everything in my DEBUG folder, re-build ALL, update ALL dependencies, and just about everything else I can think of. No luck.

Any clues?

--Randy

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[Gomez Addams]

The last time I ran into this it was caused by one of the source or include files
having a date in the future and my machine having an incorrect time. Since
we just had the daylight savings time change both of these are a possibility.

[bsmanoj]

Please check your machine date/time and Files created/modified date. If the System time is older than the files. then This usually happens.
hope you mighthave solved this by this time.
bsmanoj

[Randy C]

That was it... I had copied my project from my work machine, whose bios clock is corrupted. Stangest thing. Any program that sets or gets the date shows the right time, but all files get stamped about 5 days ahead. What I didn't realize was that even a full re-build does not alter the header files, and I had one key header that was stuck on April 12 (still days away), that I hadn't modified in a long time.

Thanks guys. Simple things can waste lots of time!

--Randy C
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