I have two identical directory trees on two different drives, lets say /mnt/olddrive and /mnt/newdrive. After the VERY long copy operation to get all the files off of the old drive I discovered that I did not preserve the time stamps. I would like to update the time stamps on the new drive with the time stamps of the older files without re-copying .. but am thus far not being successful. I tried: cp -dru --preserve=timestamps '/mnt/NwkDrv/Archive/' '/mnt/Addonics1TB/' That Sort of worked .. but only for directories, not for files. I even went so far as to write a shell script to touch each file. But it never updates the time stamp. touch -c --reference=/mnt/NwkDrv/MultMeda/News/2-be056-ada-vid.zip /mnt/Addonics1TB/MultMeda/News/2-be056-ada-vid.zip The command Executes just fine, produces no error, but the Time and Date on the target never changes. Any Suggestions? Bruce