- copy folders, keep folder dates
- Posted by OG on April 18th, 2007
I've just copied a load of folders in 'My Photos' on a dying HDD onto a nice
new HDD and am severely annoyed that all the folders are now showing with
the same 'modified' date of 15/04/07 (07/15/07 for leftponders).
Is there a freeware copy program that will honestly copy them keeping their
original folder creation dates?
- Posted by anonymous on April 18th, 2007
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- Posted by spoon2001 on April 18th, 2007
OG wrote:
Good question. I'm running NTFS on XP - don't know your OS version of file
system. On my system, at least, Windows keeps several different timestamps
for Folders - Created, Last Modified, Last Accessed.
Most of the time the timestamp we see is Last Modified. And whenever I
change the files in a folder, the folder's Last Modified stamp gets changed.
So, even if you preserve the Last Modified date when making your copy, it
may get changed very quickly - even while files are first being copied to
that folder.
Keeping that in mind, here are some utilities to consider -
Microsoft Robotype supposedly preserves the source folder timestamps on the
destination.
http://www.devhood.com/tools/tool_de...px?tool_id=321
It's a command line utility. But there is a GUI for it:
http://tinyurl.com/clc24
Also XXCOPY preserves Last Modified by default. There is an explicit /TCW
switch which is the default setting. XXCOPY is also a command line tool.
http://www.xxcopy.com
- Posted by spoon2001 on April 18th, 2007
Update. I just tested Robocopy and XXCOPY for this purpose.
Robocopy did not preserve the Last Modified data on a folder when I included
it in a copy from one drive to another. XXCOPY did.
XXCOPY did not preserve the Created and Last Access timestamps. But it can
be instructed to do so.
XXCOPY has the following switches available -
/TTA Touches (modifies) timestamp of Last Access of src.
/TTA0 Preserves timestamp of Last Access of src (default).
/TCA Copies the timestamp of Last Access fm src to dst.
/TCA0 Uses current time for dst Last Access (default).
/TCC Copies the timestamp of Create Time fm src to dst.
/TCC0 Uses current time for dst Create time (default).
/TCW Copies the Last Write time fm src to dst (default).
/TCW0 Uses current time for dst Last Write time.
If you used the switches /TCW /TCC0 /TCA0, you would preserve all three
timestamps on the destination drive - Last Write, Last Write, and Create
Time.
- Posted by Richard on April 18th, 2007
"OG" <owen@gwynnefamily.org.uk> wrote in message
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remain the same when you unzip them on the new
drive.
- Posted by OG on April 19th, 2007
"Richard" <phony@nosuch.com> wrote in message
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The files I don't really have a problem with, it's particlarly the Folders I
want to keep the 'modified date' for.
