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Originally Posted by DNSB
Looks like a message backup from an email or chat program. The created date is often when the file was copied while the modified was when it was last changed. I've attached an example where I just copied a file from C: to D: on my Windows computer.
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That's what I though too. Some e-mail programs store all of the e-mails (and by extension backups) in a single file, rather than storing the e-mails as individual files. Although it might be a way to reduce the total size the file, it has the weakness that if something happens to that one file all the e-mails might be lost.
Added: Some programs create extremely large files. An example of this is MS Word. As a test I created a one-character Word Document and saved it. I checked the file size and it was 32kb.