File folder creation date is replaced with the date copied.

[Guest]

I'm restoring my data from an external 1394 hard drive to a new XP machine.
However thousands of dates on my file folders have all been replaced with
today's time of copy. The file folders date of modification and date of
creation both show today's date. That's extremely unhelpful and technically
wrong.

Is there any way I could copy my folders and files without changing all the
file folder dates. I use a select copy and paste to the new drive method.
Or perhaps there's software from another company that could preserve the
folder's dates? I couldn't find anything on the subject on any prior
discussion or web site, so I guess I'm the first person to have encountered
this anomaly. Thanks for any reference.

 

[Guest]

The creation and modification of folders (directories) is correct. You can
use a program like Change Atrributes to change folder dates to whatever you
want. Don't know of any copy process that will preserve original date of
folders. Hope this helps.

 

[Menno Hershberger]

If you have the time and space, you could zip the folders on the old drive
and then unzip them to the new. WinZip will preserve the original dates.