It worked fine for me in recent months, and in one case, it even copied
only the new files to the destination directory. Since I find the options a
bit overwhelming and hard to remember, I felt it was safer to leave you on
your own for that.
On Tue, 25 May 2010 17:37:31 -0600, GS wrote:
> only the option /mir works and is downright dangerous
> must copy to a new subdirectory or the destination gets wiped!
> Even then the new directory always has the new date time! stupid
>
> on the other hand, somehow xcopy should have worked but complains about
> access problem. I do have full access to both destination and source
>
> in this aspect Xp was better, sign!
>
> "Gene E. Bloch" <not-> wrote in message
> news:jhp177bxizoh$.9bkmkvdtqrrf$....
>> All I can think of is to use robocopy.exe in a command window. It has
>> options to do what you want. It's also complicated, so you need to run
>> robocopy /?
>> to see a long list of options - or maybe there's a help page on
> Microsoft's
>> site.
>>
>> On Tue, 25 May 2010 12:37:40 -0600, GS wrote:
>>
>>> anyway to change the default to keep dates and attributes as original
> for
>>> copying in explorer instead of using batch scripts?
>>> "Gene E. Bloch" <> wrote in message
>>> news:uA%23FZMD$...
>>>> On 5/25/10, GS posted:
>>>>> date taken for photo copied, actually modified date on any documents
>>> copied
>>>>> in explorer tends to changed to the Now (date and time of copying).
>>>>> especially annoying for folders
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> anyway to change this default behaviour?
>>>>
>>>> Use the value in the metadata (tags)?
>>>>
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>>>> Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
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>> Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
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