How to preserve file attributes when one copies files in Windows?
Problem
On Linux, we can simply do: How to do that in Windows? Can it be done in Windows Explorer? Any GUI tool suggestions? It would be the best if I can keep the NTFS permissions and creation/modification/access time. At a minimum, I need to preserve the modification date for the files and the directories. Windows Explorer's copy does not preserve the modification date for directories.
Error Output
cp -pr directory
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Fix for: How to preserve file attributes when one copies files in Windows?
Robocopy command line tool (comes with most versions of windows) On my windows 10 machine it is located at From Wikipedia, it can be used with the following set of options to preserve file and directory timestamps, as well as other attributes: preserve original Directories' Timestamps (requires version XP026 or later) : Copy directories recursively, including Empty Directories : do not retry locked files (the number of retries on failed copies default value is 1 million), : Copy all file inform…
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