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Re: how to modify timestamp without copy?

garrydeane — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:38:02 GMT

... I don't know the inner workings of xxcopy or even if it uses a block by block copy method. Certainly your suggestion sounds workable (if not reading and

Re: how to modify timestamp without copy?

unique_craig — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:49:50 GMT

... I think that's a good point. xxcopy shouldn't worry if it's methods are efficient or not at the lower levels. It should operate as efficiently as possible

Re: how to modify timestamp without copy?

garrydeane — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:55:45 GMT

... Not quite. There are efficiencies in reading a HDD disk track so that the hardware doesn't have to move the read heads i.e. it is most efficient to read a

Re: how to modify timestamp without copy?

garrydeane — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:25:46 GMT

... You may well be right (quite possible with 1000Mbps) but there are significant overheads with ethernet that reduce its throughput and the only way to tell

Re: how to modify timestamp without copy?

Virg — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:54:45 GMT

From: "garrydeane" ... I'm not taking issue with you but I'm surprised that the previously read character can't be written at the

Re: how to modify timestamp without copy?

unique_craig — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:42:40 GMT

... ok, thanks :) Ironically, I'm not sure which will take longer, finding and learning a touch utility, or letting xxcopy re-copy everything, ;-) Certainly

Re: how to modify timestamp without copy?

garrydeane — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:19:16 GMT

... OK since you now have a mixed group of timestamps, some offset, some not, you'll need a TOUCH utility. Current versions of Xxcopy don't have that ability.

Re: how to modify timestamp without copy?

unique_craig — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:52:08 GMT

Disabling DST or changing the time zone, either way I still have to copy all the files that were copied after 2am Sunday. It will take more than 2 days to

Re: how to modify timestamp without copy?

garrydeane — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:31:11 GMT

... No. Copying across a network will definitely be slower than if the src & dst drives are directly connected to the same computer. What about disabling DST

Re: how to modify timestamp without copy?

unique_craig — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:16:15 GMT

I had already planned to reformat the source drive. So I was copying all the files to the destination drive. I am copying almost 500GB of data, and I'm

Re: how to modify timestamp without copy?

garrydeane — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:47:20 GMT

... Presumably you've recently been through a daylight savings change and you have mixed FAT & NTFS disk formats for this to occur. - you can allow the copy to

how to modify timestamp without copy?

unique_craig — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:52:27 GMT

I have a destination directory full of files that, if I use the /ts-1 switch, are identical to the source. How do I modify the timestamps on the destination

Re: TIME SENSITIVE I just bought a win64 license for xxcopy but ...

jpssnyder — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:21:06 GMT

I thought I posted a comment to this thread this morning but it disappeared - I am having the identical problem with the 64 Bit ver running on a Win 7 Pro

Re: TIME SENSITIVE I just bought a win64 license for xxcopy but ...

Kan Yabumoto — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:22:06 GMT

... First of all, you need XXCOPY64 for a 64-bit environment. If you run the regular (32-bit) XXCOPY, it will give you a warning and terminate immediately. To

TIME SENSITIVE I just bought a win64 license for xxcopy but ...

Charles Carroll — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:29:05 GMT

every time I run it I get a song and dance about the license, install, etc. I can't just run it as is and copy things. Each time I run it it wants to install.