Copy to preserve dates function

[IHipschman]

I'm not sure if this is a bug or I am misunderstanding something: When I use the "copy to" function and select the option "Preserve all original file and folder dates (created etc.)" the "created date(s)" changes to the current date. I am using version 5.4.0.2 x64 6/14/2023 on a Windows 10 machine.

[nikos]

what are your "from" and "to" copy folders? this function only works for COPY (not move) and for filesystem folders, nothing special

[IHipschman]

Aha. I think that explains it. I have two hard drives on my system. The Created Date is preserved only if I am copying to the same drive, not if I copy from one drive to the other. So is there any way to preserve all dates copying across drives?

[nikos]

that doesn't make sense to me, are both drives "normal" or there's one "special"?

[IHipschman]

Not sure what you mean by normal and special. I have two physical hard drives on the PC. They are both regular sata drives formatted with NTFS. Neither is special other than that one has the boot partition. Using "copy to" with preserve file dates set does not preserve the create date if I copy from one drive to the other. I did a little more experimenting and found that copying between partitions (different drive letters) on the same physical drive also does not preserve the create date so the issue seems to happen when copying between drive letters.

[nikos]

do you see the windows progress dialog while copying or xplorer2 "robust copy" progress dialog?

[FrizzleFry]

Works for me on both files and folders on 5.4.0.2 Ultimate, Windows 10 Home. Created and modified dates are preserved.

How are you starting the copy to process? keyboard (F5, Ctrl-F5), menu (Edit), toolbar icon

[IHipschman]

I need to apologize. I don't know what I was doing wrong before, but when I test now it is working correctly. I do apologize for taking up your time needlessly.

[FrizzleFry]

You were probably doing copy and paste which I think uses the system copy rather than the x2 robust copy.