Copying folders in Windows 7 without changing created/modified date?

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Mar 15, 20268822 views

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When you're copying a folder with subfolders in Windows 7 file explorer (and possibly in earlier versions of Windows) all subfolders get their "date created" and "date modified" changed to the current time and date. (Files are unaffected.) This is annoying because I use these values for sorting and…

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Robocopy should be up to the task. The Default copy flags are DAT (data, attributes and timestamp) so that should work. As noted in the comments, the OP used the specific flags of

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Copying folders in Windows 7 without changing created/modified date?

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