Re: how to preserve file dates when copying to a flash memory card



In article <1135578235.880663.43780@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"y551025@xxxxxxxxx" <y551025@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On my MacMini (running Mac OS X 10.3.9) it is easy to use finder's
> copy/paste (or bash's cp -r -p) to copy a directory and its files from
> one place to another. However, when my target is a Compact Flash card,
> I noticed that the copied files all have their dates changed to simply
> be the time of the
> copy operation.

Yep. That is true if the Compact Flash card is formatted for
DOS/Windows. Format the card for Mac to solve this problem.

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