Re: Move does not preserve timestamps.

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 14:33:17 -0500
<tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello again Jonathon.

Ciao.

> For "real" moves, only the ctime is changed, and AFAIK there's
> nothing practical that can be done about that.

Yes... I do expect ctime to change. However, mtime changing when
files are moved is, IMO, a Bad Thing.

> Now that you mention it, I realise that when moving between
> partitions, between filesystems etc (where it must fall back to a
> copying  process),

Aha! That's maybe why I never noticed it before. The files that first
caught my eye on this were indeed moved from one partition to another.

> the mtime and atime would not be preserved. I can  readily fix that.

Would be much appreciated. Thanks, Tom.

BTW... another feature request, if I may be so bold. I use the function
"file.copy_with_time" to copy files, but would much rather be able to
use the cpbar plugin. Unfortunately, I am quite a stickler about my
timestamps, and cpbar does not preserve them. Any chance getting time
stamp preservation for the cpbar/mvbar plugins as well?

Thanks again,
Jonathan

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Jonathan A. Irwin
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