Windows 10: Can I have the creation dates and modified dates preserved on copying?

I want to backup some files, I find that if I just copy and paste, the copied files in the new location has the new creation and/or modification dates. Is it possible to preserve those "dates" as the original one?

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The date for files is not correct and not the same as creation date or modified date in windows explorer

The date for files is not correct and not the same as creation date or modified date in windows explorer.

Recently all dates from my files have been changed to, for me, strange data. For example, the date of files is often before the creation date. I have not changed the files between folders, nor have I changed any files in this folder. All the files are from
the same type (.mp4).

The date should be the same as the creation date or modified date.

I don't understand why the dates are different now and I would like to set them back to the 'correct' date, so that I can sort by date in windows explorer.





Computer specifications:

Microsoft Windows 10 (x64)

 

Preservation of "Date Created" property for mp4 files when copying


Instead of straightforward copying, use the built-in utility RoboCopy for anything for which you want to preserve creation date. It has an add-on interface - see RichCopy - Joshua Hoffmann if you want to work through a UI.

In cases where your source [SD card, camera memory] cannot be assigned a drive letter you will not be able to use RoboCopy and the copying operation will set Creation date-time to the same as the Modified date-time [or the current Date-Time].

Where I have this limitation, I just copy the files over then sort them out afterwards. To do this sorting out, I drop the files onto this batch file or a shortcut to it and it sets the Creation date-time to the same as the LastModified date-time.

SetCreatedFromDLM.bat
Code:

Code:

For %%X in (%*) do call :Processing %%X GoTo EndSetCreated :Processing powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy ByPass Get-ChildItem  -LiteralPath "'%~1'" ^| %% {$_.CreationTime = $_.LastWriteTime}  GoTo :EOF :EndSetCreated Pause at end during testing

You can delete or remark out the Pause … line when you are happy with the batch file

To make this more convenient, I have put a shortcut to this batch file in my SendTo folder** so I can just select the files I want to sort out then right-click, SendTo, SetCreatedFromDLM
[** %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo]

Denis

 

More about file Creation and Modification File Dates

When a document is copied to a new location, the mod and creation date are changed to the date of the copy. But with picture and video files, these always also retain the original creation date regardless of how many times they were copied or edited.
Why can’t something like this be implemented for other file types?



But the system is what it is. For those of you who need to know the actual date a file was created and/or modified, how do you keep track of this? Some files, like PDF’s also retain this data which can be viewed from within Acrobat or the Reader, but
most other files just rely on Window’s properties. Any suggestions?