H.S. wrote:
... When I copy files from a flash memory (inserted in a USB card reader) to my Testing desktop, I notice that the filenames are upper case and the time stamp of the transferred files is the time they were transferred and not when they were originally created. How do I avoid these and get lower case filenames and original timestamps? The flash memories are all vfat.
1. Add the option "shortname=winnt" (or maybe some other "shortname=" values (see the manual page for the "mount" command)) to your mount options (in /etc/fstab, your command line, or whatever on your system mounts the filesystem on the flash memory). 2. If you're using the "cp" command to copy, consider the "-p" or "-a" options. Since you're probably dragging and dropping in a file manager, you'll have to find that file manager's equivalent of cp's -p and/or -a. Daniel -- (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML "courtesy" of Microsoft Exchange.) [F]