Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Saturday 2007-03-17 at 23:09 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
It keeps the timestamp for me. Just tried to make sure.
Thank you, Carlos! You've given me the hint which has solved my problem.
When copying a directory from one computer to another I have been deselecting the "preserve Attributes" because I am copying files from one user's Home directory to be copied into another users Home directory on the other computer (I am a (different) user on 2 different computers- if you follow what I mean).
Yes.
Deselecting the attributes is what is causing the timestamp to be altered on the copied files. Now that I have left this "preserve Attributes" ticked all files have retained their original timestamps.
But maybe now the ownership is wrong.
As root, 'chown -R username.groupname