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I transferred the files to a new disk but found that files with the wrong year (1980) and these files I can't open with Photoshop.

I would like to copy the time attributes from the first drive to the second without re-copying files.

A large amount of data. Thanks.

kiloponge
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You need to just copy the timestamps of the original files to the copied files (1980) without having to re-copy the original files again, actually, I didn't see this before using robocopy, but I think you have to robocopy it again with the /DCOPY:T switch . It can also preserve ACLs. Alternatively, SyncThing and Gs Richcopy360 can be configured to preserve directory timestamps and ACLs.

And after doing a full search, I found that Gs Richcopy360 has a feature called "Folder Time Stamp", this will re-correct the date on the destination, no need to re-copy the files, I think this will help.

Michael Hampton
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KimberlyJio
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Rather than trying to use Robocopy to not copy, you can use Powershell to update the timestamps.

To update file or folder modified dates, in Windows, similar to Linux/Unix 'touch' utility, use Powershell's set-itemproperty cmdlet.

Your command would look something like this:

set-itemproperty -path $Yourfile -name lastwritetime -value "2021-05-18 10:17:47"

Use get-childitem cmdlet to walk the file tree (either one level or add -recurse option to descend the folder/file tree).

Your loop would look something like this:

$filelist = get-childitem C:\Users\You\* -recurse
foreach ($file in $filelist) {
      set-itemproperty -path $file -name lastwritetime -value "2021-05-18 10:17:47"
}

There are options associated with Get-ChildItem to grab only files or only folders. In Powershell window type Get-Help Get-ChildItem or Set-ItemProperty for more options.

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