The computer I'm on only has one drive. So I can't do the exact same thing, but here's something close. I did an xcopy to a networked drive and the date and time still stayed the same for me. I'm not sure what that tells us.
I'm running Windows XP. What's your OS?


>Hi Kenneth,
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>>I agree with Sergey. It preserved the attributes for me as well.
>>Maybe you're using a handle on the command that is causing it to change.
>>Try it with no handles. What happens?
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>Ok, I think we're getting there...
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>I've just tried XCOPY *.* D:\ where the original files have various dates, and all the files on the destination drive d:\ have the date and timestamp that I copied them!
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>When I try XCOPY *.* \TEMP (ie. copy to another folder on the same drive), the dates and times are preserved.
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>So I guess my next problem is to find a way of being able to copy to another drive, but still preserving the original info.
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>Regards,
>Alan