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Old October 21st 09, 02:38 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
SlickRCBD[_3_]
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Default Preserving the dates on folders (and files) when copying from anetwork share

On Oct 21, 12:53 am, "Jeff Richards" wrote:
It's not a Windows issue. The copy procedure will use a Windows procedure
to create the folders it needs. The create folder process in W98 does not
have any options for creating it as at a particular date, so it will get the
current date. Files, OTOH, are copied, not created, so their date comes with
them.

If you use a copy procedure that copies folders instead of creating them
then there would not be a problem. This is what disk imaging programs do -
they just mindlessly copy the bits and don't concern themselves with the
file system. You can't do that for a copy into an existing file system, of
course. The copy procedure would have to use Windows to create the folder
then update the folder details as appropriate. That's what copy functions
in more advanced file systems do, because there are many folder settings
other than the date that need to be restored.

I am not aware of a copy procedure that will copy folder settings for a file
system other than NTFS, but, as you state, I would have expected that a
restore from archive might have done what you need. Perhaps you should
investigate other archiving utilities, especially newer ones created when
folder properties had become relevant, to see if any have options regarding
restoring folder settings. It's not a technically difficult thing to do,
it's just the the OS won't do it for you if you create, rather than copy, a
folder..
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)"SlickRCBD" wrote in message

On my even older Macintosh, (Mac OS 8.6) folders decompress from
Stuffit, ZIP, and early RAR archives.
It wouldn't be that difficult to back up the things I've changed in
the last month on the Win98 computer and restore from a disk image,
but I do not own a copy of Ghost, the only imaging program I'm
familiar with for Windows.
Are there any free imaging programs I can use to make an image of the
Virutal PC hard drive image and copy it from my Vista 64 Home Premium
computer to my Windows 98SE computer via a Fast Ethernet connection?

Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever tried Microsoft Backup to
do a restore. Will using Microsoft Backup on the virutal machine allow
me to use the output file on the real one?