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Number   :  4273
Date     :  2003-04-10
Author   :  Garry Deane
Subject  :  Re: O Boy, folder dates
Size(KB) :  2


--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, Jon Hugdahl  wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I understand that when a folder is created new it gets
> today's date. Unfortunately a copied folder that is new
> in the destination gets today's date, and not the
> original or source's date. This is different from
> files that do keep their original dates. The above
> is from my observation.
> 
> Recently I converted my clone operation from three
> separate partitions to one partition with high-level
> names equal to the volume labels of the source
> partitions. Now all my (backup) folders have the
> wrong dates. I am thinking of going back, and that
> is not so bad.
> 
> I want re-create my win98se partition and I want to
> do it using xxcopy so that I can be rid of a invalid
> sector number that causes PM9 and DI2002 to fail on
> a partition copy (DI2002 will backup and restore the
> partition but it perpetuates the invalid sector problem).

I think your best bet would be to fix the invalid sector number 
problem. This is usually the last sector on the disk because the BIOS 
mis-reports the size of the disk. If so, you can use the BIOS to 
manually set the disk parameters to match what is actually there 
rather than using auto detect. Alternately, use Partition Magic to 
reduce the size of the partition so that there is a little free space 
at the end of the disk. This will exlude the invalid sector when you 
do a partition copy. I think I have also seen other solutions to this 
problem.

> I have seen a lot of discussion of folder dates. And I
> understand that xxcopy has a limitation in this area, of
> which limitation I am not quarreling.

This is an operating system problem rather than a limitation of 
xxcopy.

> Has any one found a solution? That is, is there any way
> of either preserving or updateing folder dates to the
> source's date? I am willing to run a separate program
> to meet my goal.

It would be possible to do this but why bother! Using a programming 
language or even in batch with the aid of a utility or two, you could 
do the following:

1. Get a list of the directories in the source.
2. For each directory, retrieve it's date and time.
3. Reset the system clock to match the directory timestamp.
4. Determine the destination directory name based on the source 
directory name.
5. Create the destination directory if it doesn't already exist.
6. Move on the the next directory.
7. Restore the system time.
8. Run xxcopy to copy the files from the source to the destination.

But as I said, why bother.

Garry



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