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Old 10-11-2018, 06:25 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
That sounds somewhat dangerous to me. The only way I can think of that the contents of a file could change without the "last modified" date altering is data corruption - eg a failing disk. If that were to happen, would you really want those corrupted files to be copied to your backup device?
Some well known image editors have an option to change the file system Modified timestamp to one of Exif timestamps (create, digitized, edited). Some also allow files to be altered and saved/overwritten with their original Modified timestamps, such as Irfanview's bulk conversion advanced options dialogue:

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