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Old July 24th 04, 09:51 PM
henryn
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Default Copy files, preserving timestamp : exact copy!

Folks:

I'm trying to clean up a Win98SE system that belongs to a non-profit
childcare organization. Files have accumulated in a big heap, need some
organization.

What I want to do is make exact copies of the contents of a directory into a
new directory where I'll do the organizing.

Everything I have tried so far, including DOS command-line xcopy, changes at
least one of the created/modified/accessed dates.

I want the the created, modified, accessed file dates to _stay_ _the_
_same_ so I can preserve the original date order of the files.

How?

I _think_ there's a way of doing this with pkzip, where you tell it to
preserve all the file dates in the .zip file, but I don't have pkzip on this
machine and it is a bit of trouble to get it.

Is there a way to copy files, preserving the original created, modified,
accessed dates with a stock Win98 system? If not, what's the most robust
add-on that will do the trick?

Thanks,

Henry

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Old July 24th 04, 10:55 PM
Richard G. Harper
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Default Copy files, preserving timestamp : exact copy!

You need PKZIP or something similar to move the files intact.

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Folks:

I'm trying to clean up a Win98SE system that belongs to a non-profit
childcare organization. Files have accumulated in a big heap, need some
organization.

What I want to do is make exact copies of the contents of a directory into
a
new directory where I'll do the organizing.

Everything I have tried so far, including DOS command-line xcopy, changes
at
least one of the created/modified/accessed dates.

I want the the created, modified, accessed file dates to _stay_ _the_
_same_ so I can preserve the original date order of the files.

How?

I _think_ there's a way of doing this with pkzip, where you tell it to
preserve all the file dates in the .zip file, but I don't have pkzip on
this
machine and it is a bit of trouble to get it.

Is there a way to copy files, preserving the original created, modified,
accessed dates with a stock Win98 system? If not, what's the most robust
add-on that will do the trick?

Thanks,

Henry

don't sleep




 




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