Guest Bobbi Posted July 22, 2008 Posted July 22, 2008 Files written to CDs become read-only, even after being copied back to a hard disk. Also, the file's date becomes the copying date, not the date the file was originally created or modified. Is there some way to retain the original creation date of a file under these circumstances? Bobbi
Guest 3c273 Posted July 22, 2008 Posted July 22, 2008 Re: Dates on files written to CDs Check the advanced options for your burning software. There is usually an option to retain the original dates. Louis "Bobbi" <bobbi@example.invalid> wrote in message news:e4qStYD7IHA.2416@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Files written to CDs become read-only, even after being copied back to a > hard disk. Also, the file's date becomes the copying date, not the date the > file was originally created or modified. Is there some way to retain the > original creation date of a file under these circumstances? > > Bobbi > >
Guest Big_Al Posted July 22, 2008 Posted July 22, 2008 Re: Dates on files written to CDs Bobbi wrote: > Files written to CDs become read-only, even after being copied back to a > hard disk. Also, the file's date becomes the copying date, not the date the > file was originally created or modified. Is there some way to retain the > original creation date of a file under these circumstances? > > Bobbi > > The read-only is as expected. Data on the CD is considered read-only and when *copied* back its keeps that status. If you used a backup utilitiy, they normally retain file settings and would not only restore the date properly but the attribute status. As for the dates on the CD, I see you got other responses and I'll bow to their expertise.
Guest Patrick Keenan Posted July 22, 2008 Posted July 22, 2008 Re: Dates on files written to CDs "Bobbi" <bobbi@example.invalid> wrote in message news:e4qStYD7IHA.2416@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Files written to CDs become read-only, even after being copied back to a > hard disk. Not always. Some copying utilities do not preserve the read-only flag when files are copied to hard disk. But even if it is preseved, select all, right click, choose properties and remove the read-only flag. Or use a command prompt and the attrib command. > Also, the file's date becomes the copying date, not the date the file was > originally created or modified. Is there some way to retain the original > creation date of a file under these circumstances? You can - or should be able to - tell your CD burning software to use the original (or previous) file date and time stamps. If your burning software doesn't offer this, it's a good reason to switch. I don't know of any way to recover the original date once the dates are changed HTH -pk > > Bobbi >
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