I was sure that in the past, files would usually maintain their dates when I moved them, or transferred them to another device.
I have the pcmanfm-qt file manager. As of these past few days I have noticed that alot of the files I try to select move on, are just switching their date and time to the moment of movement(the new day’s date). This includes the modification date. Usually even if a file is a copy, it will maintain the modification date of the original copy to what I remember. But either way moved files do not usually change any of their dates, because they are not a new/different file.
Is this a recent issue? How can I get around it? What happened?
Also In the past, I have noticed that sometimes there will be a file or two that does not transfer. Don’t always know why, but sometimes a name is has characters that a system may not work with. I’ve noticed a number of non-transferring files recently, but atleast some of them seem like they used no unusual symbols or anything. I went ahead and renamed them, but they still wouldn’t budge.
I copied and pasted a file, last modified & accessed stay the same, created refelects the time I copied, which makes sense. Can’t see anything in settings to affect date/time.
When going ahead and moving more, i think alot of what i was seeing was last viewed and creation date. It would be great to know of ways to preserve original creation dates when moving files, but that may be limited.
My main priority now is, is there a way I will be able to move the files that refuse to move and say they can’t? Those are the files that are left now. They seem no different from other files, and include all general types.
On preserving creation dates: it depends on the filesystem.
Moving files within the same filesystem keeps timestamps intact.
Moving across different filesystems (e.g. EXT4 to BTRFS/exFAT/NTFS) will reset them — that’s a filesystem limitation, not a bug.
For the files that won’t move — what filesystems are involved? Run: I guess you get message permission denied.
df -T
Paste the output here. Especially interested in source and destination.
We need output to be able to help you better.
It’s been moving files from documents to an external device. MP3, CDG, jpg(many of them are screenshots created with screengrab), some plain text documents, and pdf(mad through print to pdf while net browsing). Many of the same types of files, esp created have transferred, but a fair amount won’t. Endeavour os is list as on ext4. The external device is exfat. Exfat does come up as listed as a supported filesystem when I run cat /proc/filesystems
