# Save creation and modify date
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/save-creation-and-modify-date/50707
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [November 6, 2020, 9:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/save-creation-and-modify-date/50707 "2020-11-06T21:01:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@gworley](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/gworley)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2020, 9:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/save-creation-and-modify-date/50707/1 "2020-11-06T21:01:39Z")
I would like to see a feature to preserve the File Creation Data and Modification Date.
The drives on my 10 Year NAS drives were failing. I was able to preserve all the files except some images. I noticed that there was a bunch of MP3 files that I have forgotten about and most didn't have correct MP3 Tags while others had the wrong group and title (Thankfully for Shazam! on my cell phone I was able to ID the tracks). However I didn't like that every time I corrected the tags all the dates changed. So I used another program Altap Salamander to preserve the dates. Would like to be able to preserve these dates without a third party program.
Thanks,
George
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2020, 9:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/save-creation-and-modify-date/50707/2 "2020-11-06T21:03:55Z")
See File\>Options\>Tags\>Keep timestamp
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2020, 10:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/save-creation-and-modify-date/50707/3 "2020-11-06T22:44:57Z")
If you activate this option, your file modification time will NOT be changed anymore, aka as preserved.
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### Author:  [@gworley](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/gworley)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2020, 5:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/save-creation-and-modify-date/50707/4 "2020-11-30T05:21:58Z")
Thank you for answering this. Sorry I haven't replied to this before now asI ended up spending the last 2 weeks due to complications due to Type 1 Diabetes.
George
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2020, 5:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/save-creation-and-modify-date/50707/5 "2020-12-30T05:22:02Z")
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