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Can True Image 2020 perserve creation dates of files and folders during copying?

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Hi, I got some old files and folders created under Windows 7. I stored them in external drives. I noticed that when I copied them to a new laptop running Windows 10 by drag and drop, the original file and folder creation dates were changed to the date when I made the copying. I want to keep the original dates of creation in the new system. Can True Image 2020 allow me to selectively copy files and folders to the internal SSD of a new machine while preserving the original files and folders creation dates?

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Peter, welcome to these public User Forums.

Please see the ATI 2020 User Guide section on File Recovery

File recovery options

Location: Recovery options > Advanced > File recovery options

You can select the following file recovery options:

  • Recover files with their original security settings - if the file security settings were preserved during backup (see File-level security settings for backup), you can choose whether to recover them or let the files inherit the security settings of the folder where they will be recovered to. This option is effective only when recovering files from file/folder backups.
  • Set current date and time for recovered files - you can choose whether to recover the file date and time from the backup or assign the files the current date and time. By default the file date and time from the backup will be assigned.

If you copy files from within Explorer then the default behaviour (at least on my own computer with Windows 10) is to keep the original file date / time information.

I have done copies where the files timestamps were preserved but directory timestamps were set to the copy time.  I'm not sure what I did wrong to cause this but I know it can be done.  Very frustrating.

An ATI recovery will maintain the original timestamps.  I'm less certain about doing a copy from a .tib or .tibx file using Windows Explorer.