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Old 02-16-2020, 06:22 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by akademie View Post
This is fine that Creation date is set to actual date when copying and thus creating a new file, but as the file is just a copy, its modification date should stay as was original.
When you create a new file, both the date created and date modified will be the same.
When you create a new file, both the date created and date modified can be the same, depending. In Reaper, when e.g recording a new item, Created will be the start of the recording and Modified when the recording was stopped.

Those dates are the original parameters for this new file. After that point in time, if you modify this file, the date created will stay the same and date modified updates.*) You can preserve the original modification date only by not modifying the file, or changing the file attributes after the fact.


*) not the whole story, as discussed later...

Last edited by xpander; 02-19-2020 at 01:40 PM. Reason: edited for accuracy
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