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Old October 19th 09, 12:33 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 19, 12:53*am, "Jeff Richards" wrote:
What copy procedures have you used?

Restore will not work, as that is a different procedure.

As a last resort, it would be possible to copy back and let the copy create
the folders, then use a Touch utility to fix the folder dates.
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)"SlickRCBD" wrote in message

Whatever it is has to be automated, as among other things I was trying
to restore my saved games for things like Baldur's Gate I/II where the
dates affect the order the saved games appear, and by their nature
they tend to be in order. I don't want to manually have to do over a
hundred folders.

I initially used XCOPY for everything. Then once I got Windows98
working on the new drive and noticed the problem, I tried the normal
procedure of dragging from the network share to the folder they
belonged.
Next, I tried select all, copy, paste
Then I got the idea to stick them in a solid WinRAR archive and
decompress them to a folder. I figured I could just overwrite the ones
with the bad dates. Even that didn't work, which surprised me.

Give that there are "freshen" and other options in winRAR, I'd expect
that to have worked.

So, how do I preserve the dates on the folders? Some registry entry I
need to change? I don't see anything in TweakUI.