how do I retain file dates?

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I cut and pasted from C drive to my CDburner on my dell laptop and all
the file dates changed to today's date.

I copy and pasted and the same thing happened.

Is there any way to copy to and from a CD that keeps the original dates
of a file. The only thing I can think of is zipping then unzipping.
 
The date you're looking at is the modified date. The created date should
remain the same. You can enable this column in Windows Explorer by changing
to Detail view, then right clicking on the detail header and choose "Date
Created". I'm sorry, but I don't know a way to keep the modified date the
same.
 
can you tell I'm new to XP :) thanks

Robert said:
The date you're looking at is the modified date. The created date should
remain the same. You can enable this column in Windows Explorer by changing
to Detail view, then right clicking on the detail header and choose "Date
Created". I'm sorry, but I don't know a way to keep the modified date the
same.
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The answer doesn't solve the problem state. When I copy a file from a back-up CD to the hard drive in XP, I want it to retain the "last modified" date it had on the CD. It doesn't. I don't care when it was created; I want it to keep the date it was last modified -- on the back-up disk.
 
The date you're looking at is the modified date. The created date should
remain the same. You can enable this column in Windows Explorer by changing
to Detail view, then right clicking on the detail header and choose "Date
Created". I'm sorry, but I don't know a way to keep the modified date the
same.
Click to expand...

I think you might be confused. The Modified Date _WILL_ stay the same,
it's the Date Created which will (rightly) change.

If I wanted to have the target file (C:\another\path\FUBAR.DAT) the
same Date Created as the source file (D:\somepath\FUBAR.DAT), I would
use
TOUCH /R:cD:\somepath\FUBAR.DAT C:\another\path\FUBAR.DAT
from 4NT's set of internal commands; see:
http://jpsoft.com/help/touch.htm

However, due to different granularity of file stamps on different file
systems, file dates will often be slightly different after a round
trip, e.g. copy FU.BAR from NTFS to a CD (or a FAT disk) and back to
NTFS and its file stamps will probably be slightly different.
 
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