{"id":7,"date":"2020-01-21T02:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T02:20:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-02-22T01:14:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T01:14:15","slug":"copying-folders-in-windows-10-without","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/copying-folders-in-windows-10-without.html","title":{"rendered":"Copying Folders in Windows 10 Without Changing the Modified Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/images.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/images.png\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"224\" data-original-width=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>So you decided to backup your data to a second hard drive or an external hard disk, and then find out that the copied folders have the current time and date.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re like me and this bothers you, and you want the folder&#8217;s original create date, the only way to copy them is through command prompt in Windows using ROBOCOPY command.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming your data are currently on hard drive F: and you want to copy them to hard drive G:, then you can just open the command Prompt in windows and write the following command.<\/p>\n<pre>ROBOCOPY f: g: \/MIR \/COPY:DAT \/DCOPY:T<\/pre>\n<p>As simple as that. Any questions, let me know!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; So you decided to backup your data to a second hard drive or an external hard disk, and then find out that the copied folders have the current time and date. If you&#8217;re like me and this bothers you, and you want the folder&#8217;s original create date, the only way to copy them is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}