File date modified

[BobAchgill]

Is there a way to make it so the File date modified date of the downloaded file(s) maintain the same file date modified date from the original seed?

Bob

[Lord Alderaan]

That info is stored in the filesystem, not in the file itself. That means that that info isn't transferred through the BitTorrent protocol.

But you could use a archiver (like rar and zip) that stores that info and make a torrent of the archive...

Besides there is no such thing as an original seed. Its either stored in the torrent or its not.

[BobAchgill]

Thanks.

So as I understand it what is stored in the torrent file is only...

names of files

hashes of files

tracker url

but not file date

???

What's a normal free archiver that will allow unzipping the files with original dates to original path?

Can the torrent be created so that it will know to automatically unpack the archive once downloaded? or does the user always have to do that manually?

[Lord Alderaan]

Only the path (aka filename) is stored.

Hashes are made of pieces, not files.

Zip is free and stores that info I think. And yes users have to extract it themselves but Windows XP and Vista have build-in support for Zip files so I'd recommend that if you deal with users who don't know about .rar files.