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How to keep filestamps of folders (NOT only files)?

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pstein
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How to keep filestamps of folders (NOT only files)?

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In my profile (of SBSEv8) I enabled the option

Expert--->Copy/Delete--->Advanced--->Copy file creation date & times

As I found out only the timestamps of the files were copied and NOT those of folders.

How can I tell SB-SE to copy timestamps of folder as well?

How can I now (with new timestamps of folders) "repair" the folder timestamps (=adjust them to the original timestamps)?

By the way: "Copy file creation date & times" is misleading. Not only the timestamp for creation time is copied but for modification time as well.

Peter
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Re: How to keep filestamps of folders (NOT only files)?

Post by Swapna »

Hi,

We have a non-default option in SyncBackSE to copy the Created date/time stamps of folders, which is under:
Modify profile > Expert mode > Copy/Delete > Folders > 'Copy sub-directory attributes and creation date (only when new directories are created)'

However, this option must be in force before/at the time the new copy was created (but it can't update the creation date/time stamps for already copied folders). There is no option to set the last modified date/time stamp of folders.

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Re: How to keep filestamps of folders (NOT only files)?

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Meanwhile I tried it and found out that ONLY the CREATION timestamp of folders is copied and NOT the LAST MODIFIED timestamp.

How can copy the "last modified" timestamp of folders as well?

If I remember it well then SyncBack v6.5 provided such a feature.

Why was this removed in later versions?

Peter
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