Hi guys! I have a question to make.. I was copying 150GB of video files on my hard disks (from one to another) and I had them all indexed by CREATION DATE. I see now after the copy that all files have today's date as Creation Date... How can I copy a file WITHOUT losing its attributes ? Thank you in advance! Digital Family.

How did you do the copying? Did you use Windows Explorer? AFAIK Windows Explorer usually do not change file timestamp when copying but if it do - just zip the original then decompress it at the destination source. BTW file timestamps has nothing to do with file attributes. Look HERE for explanation. i_XpUser

Yes I realised that after sending this message! you are right.. Sorry but I dont speak fluently english :) Digital Family.

Any others considerations? I checked it and anytime I try to copy files from one disk to another.. the timestamps of the files always change.. How can I stop that? I want the old timestamps.. Digital Family.

We have discovered that it’s tough to retain original timestamps when your file system is NTFS. See if our past discussion below helps. December 05, 2005: Copy files with original date/time May 03, 2006: Copy files with Timestamp Please post back to let us know. i_XpUser

"How can I copy a file WITHOUT losing its attributes ?" Zip 'em as suggested by XpUser or use robocopy (a cmd line tool) from M$. P.S. If for example, your two drives are C: & D: & you are moving all files from C: to a "folder" on D: while retaining the time and date stamps - you simply type the command below: robocopy C:\*.* D:\folder /copy:dt /a-:r The command should copy the data from the C: drive to your destination "folder" on the D: drive - keeping the timestamps (/copy:dt) intact as well as stripping read only attributes (/a-:r) from the data you are moving.

Thanks Sabertooth! but what happens with Long File Names? Digital Family.