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    Hello Windows File Explorer developers.

    Description of problem:

    I have been a macOS user for years and have installed macOS 11 (Big Sur) on my old MacBook, but I want to switch completely to Windows 10.

    I have always used a 1 TB external hard drive (exFAT as file system) and all the files and folders I created on macOS have modified time (mtime) and creation time (crtime = birth time = btime). I copied these files and folders with the standard file manager (Finder) on macOS to my 1 TB external hard drive. All timestamps (mtime and crtime) for files and folders were kept.

    Then I connected my 1 TB external hard drive to my Windows 10 (current version 20H2) notebook and copied the files and folders to my Windows notebook using Windows 10 File Explorer. Unfortunately creation time (crtime) was not kept and all my copied files and folders were set to current time. Only modified time (mtime) was kept.


    Expected results:

    That's the problem, Windows File Explorer in Windows 10 (20H2) does not support this function, keep creation time (crtime) for local files and folders when copying, just like macOS Finder.

    Can you Windows developers add this support in the next Windows 10 version? I only want to use Windows File Explorer because it is a very nice file manager (GUI) for me and newbies.

    Mittwoch, 13. Januar 2021 21:20
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    Du bist hier im deutschen Userforum gelandet.
    Aber hier ist ein Beitrag der erklärt, dass es schon immer so war.
    https://superuser.com/questions/146125/how-to-preserve-file-attributes-when-one-copies-files-in-windows

    Ebenso sind da einige alternative Programme aufgeführt.

    Mittwoch, 13. Januar 2021 21:45
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    Expected results:

    That's the problem, Windows File Explorer in Windows 10 (20H2) does not support this function, keep creation time (crtime) for local files and folders when copying, just like macOS Finder.

    Hi,

    first, this is a German forum. If you'd like to reach a broader english-speaking community, you have to head over to Microsoft Q&A.

    Second, this is a self-help community platform. You cannot expect Microsoft devs to read here, although some of them do.

    Third, I have been a Windows user for 27 years. Expected behaviour for me is that the creation time of a file is when the file was created, be it by copying or by any other means. A lot of Windows-based stuff would break if this were changed.

    Evgenij Smirnov

    http://evgenij.smirnov.de

    Donnerstag, 14. Januar 2021 05:38
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    Darüber kann man geteilter Meinung sein. Allerdings prüfen ja die meisten Anwendungen sowieso nur das letzte Änderungsdatum z.B. für Synchronisationen.
    Donnerstag, 14. Januar 2021 09:09
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    Darüber kann man geteilter Meinung sein. Allerdings prüfen ja die meisten Anwendungen sowieso nur das letzte Änderungsdatum z.B. für Synchronisationen.
    Darüber, was "Expected Behaviour" in Windows ist, kann man in diesem Fall nur schwer geteilter Meinung sein. Es war nie anders, daher wird es auch so erwartet. "Gewünscht" ist nicht das gleiche wie "Erwartet".

    Evgenij Smirnov

    http://evgenij.smirnov.de

    Donnerstag, 14. Januar 2021 11:26
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