[WinPartners] Preserving creation dates

[Stephen Dowdy]

Use the   xcopy      command from a command prompt.  Many switches.  Will 
copy ACL info.  Also useful to run tests if copying many files since on a 
second pass it will only copy files that changed since the first copy.

xcopy /?         gets you a list of all the switches

generally, I use:   xcopy  souce  destination  /e /h /k /o /y /d /v /r


At 03:50 PM 7/13/2004 -0400, Dave Woodruff wrote:
>Hi,
>
>If you move a folder from one Windows share to another on the network, or
>even from one disk to another on the same machine, the creation date is
>changed to the current time.  Is there a way of preventing this from
>happening?  Or perhaps to modify the creation date once the folder is
>moved?
>
>         Thanks for any advice,
>
>                                 Dave
>
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