FreeFileSync Forum

The FFS behavior is similar to copying a folder e.g. in Windows (File) Explorer.
When copying a folder with files in it to a new location,
the file-dates are retained in the new location,
but the folder-date(s) are as per the moment of making the copy.
This applies both to the modified- and the ...

Folders copied in FreeFileSync (presently ?) always have "today's" date.
For files it depends on the protocol.
SMB/CIFS/Samba should retain file dates, while e.g. most (all?) FTP/SFTP variants do not support retaining file dates.


Why is there not a way to retain folder dates? This copy is ...

I have looked through the help pages but I do not see a way to preserve file/folder dates. I select "mirror" and the file/folders in the sync'd directory all have today's date. What am I doing wrong?