I can't reproduce this with thunar, 13.10, and a ext4 filesystem. Perhaps this is related to the USB drive being a FAT filesystem? Could you try to reproduce this on your homedir?
** Changed in: thunar (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1252655 Title: Thunar assigns date stamp of deleted file when previous (e.g. original) copy of file copied or moved into directory To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunar/+bug/1252655/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs