hobie of RMN wrote: > Why that's happening is a separate issue and one that I do need to find > the answer to, but my question today is this: Is it possible to find the > original creation date-and-time on these files, or is it simply "gone with > the wind" at this point?
I would say it is the root of the problem - share how you copy the files If you use cp it is clearly wrong unless you use some of the options to preserve the original time stamp. How it was working "for years" - I do not know. I use tar $ ls -al TODO -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 12475 Nov 22 2020 TODO $ cp TODO /tmp/ ls -al /tmp/TODO -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 12475 Jun 12 10:49 /tmp/TODO $ tar cf - TODO | (cd /tmp/; tar xvf -) TODO $ ls -al /tmp/TODO -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 12475 Nov 22 2020 /tmp/TODO but if you use cp -a it has same effect $ cp -a TODO /tmp/ $ ls -al /tmp/TODO -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 12475 Nov 22 2020 /tmp/TODO
