On Internet there are many threads about synchronzing/copy folders but maintaining folder dates.
It is recommended to investigate a range of tools that allegedly maintain folder dates, such as
Robocopy, Teracopy, Fastcopy, Richcopy, rsync, cwsync, double commander.. whatever.
Q: before doing so, does Opus have an option to sync/copy folders to new locations but keeping
the folderdates?
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Yes, although IMO it is futile to try to maintain folder dates in general and foolish to actually depend on them.
Folder dates are very fragile and get changed if any file or folder is created, removed or renamed (and perhaps other operations) below the folder. They can be useful as rough guides to when a folder (but not necessarily the data within it) was last modified, but only a very rough guide.
So before you worry about when folder timestamps are preserved, I strongly urge you to rethink whatever you have in mind which has led to wanting to preserve them; it is probably not a good idea, even though Opus will let you do it.
I know,
However, in some cases I guess it is handy.
Like:
-when it involves old folders (years, sometimes many years) back, that are not being used to save files into, but are there with archive files - one may wish them to keep the last used date, specifically when..
-folders are subject to indexing (desktop search engines)
or
(in my case right now) - i have moved a significant number of folders to another partition, in some \tmp\tmp folder and sync them back to the old place - a lot of folders that also contain 'old files' (1st example), i.e. you prefer to keep the old folder date.
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Preserving dates on files makes sense; it's the folder dates which are fragile.
Opus can preserve both, of course. (Although what it does depends on configuration and also how you use it, so do some tests first to make sure it does what you need before relying on it. You may need to change configuration or the command or method you are using.)
Maybe I am looking at the wrong place, but I am not sure on 'both'.
Files, yes, but folders?
Any hint?
I'm not sure if it applies to sync at all (vs the Copy command, which definitely will preserve folder dates) but even if it does it would only take effect if the folder did not exist at all in the destination and had to be created from scratch, otherwise the folder is already there and does not need creating, and a file will be created within the folder (if any are missing), changing the folder's date.
Okay, thanks, I understand, bad luck.
