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Modification dates change when moving/copying between hard-drive and flash drive

Postby Michelle York » Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:11:39 GMT 

I posted this on the general office newsgroup, but it seems to be a dead
group the last few days.  So hopefully someone here can give me some
feedback:


I believe that this is actually an Apple question, but I'm sure that there's
an Office user that might know the answer to it also.  I use a flash drive
to store most of my work-related documents on.  That way, I have them when
I'm at school (on a Windows XP computer) and at home on my Mac OS 10.3.9.  I
try to occasionally back-up my flash drive by dragging it's contents to my
Mac.  Copying in this direction USUALLY retains the appropriate modification
date.  

However, if I move things from the Mac to the USB drive (I occasionally make
changes to a file on the Mac when my flashdrive isn't handy), the
modification date changes to the copy/move date.  Is there a way around
this?  It alters the information about the file and sometimes makes a
version look newer than another version of a document.  When in reality,
it older--it just been moved/copied and the date changed.

I often move things back and forth for backup purposes, but if it keeps
changing the dates on it own, it impossible to tell which is REALLY the
most current copy/version.
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1.Modification dates change when moving/copying between hard-drive and flash drive 

I believe that this is actually an Apple question, but I'm sure that there's
an Office user that might know the answer to it also.  I use a flash drive
to store most of my work-related documents on.  That way, I have them when
I'm at school (on a Windows XP computer) and at home on my Mac OS 10.3.9.  I
try to occasionally back-up my flash drive by dragging it's contents to my
Mac.  Copying in this direction USUALLY retains the appropriate modification
date.  

However, if I move things from the Mac to the USB drive (I occasionally make
changes to a file on the Mac when my flashdrive isn't handy), the
modification date changes to the copy/move date.  Is there a way around
this?  It alters the information about the file and sometimes makes a
version look newer than another version of a document.  When in reality,
it older--it just been moved/copied and the date changed.

I often move things back and forth for backup purposes, but if it keeps
changing the dates on it own, it impossible to tell which is REALLY the
most current copy/version.

2.Copying/Moving files from hard drive My Docs to flash drive 

Flash drive is 32 MB with over half the space available.  When I try to move 
or copy or send (i.e., save) files from My Docs to the flash drive, I get the 
following error message:  "Error copying file or folder; cannot copy (name of 
file): the directory or file cannot be created.

Yet, I can move a file already on the flash drive to the hard drive and 
return it to the flash drive with no error.  A first-time problem in five 
years.  So space is not an issue, and, as far as I can tell, there is no 
damage to the drive; no files are corrupted.

Thanks for any suggestions.

DM

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Many thanks in advance,
Peter

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