Technology: November 2022 Archives

How to maintain Folder attributes (date created/modified) on a 'Copy' - when a new file is added

Use ROBOCOPY /MIR to create a mirror of an entire folder tree, with consistent create and modified times and date stamps. Pro tip: add /R:3 /W:3 to restrict retries to three times for three seconds each. You can also add a /LOG option to write results in a log file to find any files that failed to copy and try again manually. Here's the manual page for ROBOCOPY, with all of the options.