It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Ashamed-Log-4955 on 2024-08-04 14:55:52.

I've been trying to back up photos and videos from my phone to a SanDisk 1TB portable SSD. I noticed when I copied and pasted them from my phone to the SSD that the dates would change and be updated to the date they were transferred across to the SSD. In my hastiness this morning, I tried a different method. I tried cutting and pasting some videos from my phone to the SSD to free up some space. However, I noticed that even though I cut and pasted the folder from my phone to the SSD, the modification dates and creation dates were updated. I verified this on my laptop. I tried sorting them in all the ways that I could, but it seems that all the dates were changed. My question is, how do I prevent this? How do I transfer my files from my phone to my SSD without changing the dates, and I guess my secondary question would be, Can I recover the dates from the videos I transferred this morning, or is that data lost? And if I can recover it, how do I go about doing so?