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I want to copy a couple of folders and preserve their modified date for historic reasons and not to change the sorting I'm used to. I have tried using rsync with flags to preserve times and the finders "Paste item exactly".

For files this works fine but it seems macOS or the finder or whatever still modifies the "Modified at" date for folders.

Is there a way to copy my folders and keep the modified date?

Edit: Added clarification that I already used rsync with --times --archive

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man rsync:

-t, --times                 preserve modification times
-O, --omit-dir-times        omit directories from --times
-J, --omit-link-times       omit symlinks from --times
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    This is not enough. Files and dirs are copied as wanted but then something in macOS touches/modifies the folder. A couple of seconds after being copied all the folders modified date is set to now. Not sure if this is Spotlight, Finder or whatever component
    – soupdiver
    Commented Nov 19, 2018 at 9:37

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