Preserving Date time stamps on Directories When Copying in XP
Sunday, June 29, 2008I recently upgraded my computer and I had to transfer data from my old harddrives. The problem was, as you can guess from the title, is that XP would not preserve the modified date on directories (although I believe the Create time is preserved).
I was hoping for a program that would integrate into my explorer context menu, etc. I tried some other ones that had their own gui (and the ones that did integrate), and none of them would preserve the modified timestamps.
I tried xcopy but couldn’t figure out how to preserve the modified date.
Anyway, I’m back to using rsync in my cygwin shell:
cd c:\newdir rsync -a -v --progress /cygdrive/e/Data .
or a simple ‘cp’:
cd c:\newdir cp -a /cygdrive/e/Data .
I like rsync since I can run it over and over again and it will only copy changes (although it will still traverse the directory tree to compare files). Especially handy when you get errors that it can’t read certain directory etc. In my case, I had issues with it reading a directory that had url link with foreign characters in the filename.
And this method is probably little too high level for most home users. Cygwin can be problematic and seems complex to install. Also I think you may have to manually select rsync during install.
I’ll keep a look out for other programs, and will update this post if I do find it.
Weird delay or lag with Openwebmail and Firefox
Saturday, February 5, 2005I use openwebmail for our webmail client. And only on my Laptop’s Firefox (my desktop and many others that I’ve tried worked fine) would run really slow and laggy when I went to my openwebmail web page.
Well I tracked it down to the default background ‘Globe.gif’ that I came configured. I tried copying another gif file that came with openwebmail, and that had the same problem. Converted the gif file to a jpg and changed the settings so it would use jpg, and voila! Problem solved.
Copied a random gif on the server (ones that came with Apache) and it worked fine. Also I converted the previously converted jpg file back to a gif and that also had no problem.
So not sure if its a problem with Firefox’s rendering engine. Maybe it can’t handle a certain type of gif file?
And I thought I'd never change the old homepage
Monday, April 26, 2004Well this is a start. I’ve been avoiding updating this site, worrying that when I start it will consume too much of my time. But since I had to play with different CMS/blog softwares for a client, I figured I’d sneak an installation onto this site. We’ll see how it goes. If this will allow me to update my site with little effort. And more importantly, give me a nice interface which will motivate me to write my own mod_perl photo gallery software.
Finally
Friday, March 12, 2004Ok, its finally up. How do you like the site layout? i’m going to be tweaking it slowly. Also I need to modify the Image gallery’s theme so it looks the same. (so for now, it only looks like this on this main page).
Already, it looks different from the initial layout I tried.