--- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:

> Hi
> 
> are there any settings that disallow / prevent
> changing of file details
> - like time created / modified  when they are copied
> across drives, or
> downloaded from the Internet or downloaded from
> Thunderbird.
> how can this behavior be controlled.

If you use cp (the command line), you would have to
use it with -p attribute to preserve the existing
time, ownership and mode. 
If you are copying it over a network and want to
preserve it, you can use -p option with scp. 

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