Monday, July 8, 2019

Windows: move files while preserving attributes

How to move files in Windows while preserving attributes? Can you preserve them all, or at least all the important ones? What are the important ones? What attributes can be preserved for files compared to directories?

What can be known about a files date attributes:
* Date created
* Date modified
* Date accessed
* Date last saved

Methods of copying:
* simple copy/move in explorer
* RAR up and extract at destination
* robocopy

Copy file
Updates Created and Accessed to current, preserves Modified.