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So I was transferring some files from my old mac to new one using an external drive. I was able to get all the files with their dates preserved to my users folder, however while moving them to downloads they change to present date and time. I understand that this must be a downloads folder property of resetting date to when it was first added, but is there any way to avoid this issue?

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  • Have you tried copying or moving the Downloads folder itself rather than the files in the folder? You may need to delete the Downloads folder first in the target disk for this to work.
    – Alper
    Commented Dec 26, 2021 at 7:44

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Open terminal, and use the command line to copy files using cp with the option -a (archive, copies recursively); e.g.,

$ cp -a /Volumes/ExternalDrive/backups/my_dir ~/Downloads/
$ ls -la ~/Downloads/my_dir

For details on cp options and what they mean, in terminal, run man cp

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