CONTEXT: I sat down today to transfer the folders from my old Microsoft Surface Book 1 computer to my new Microsoft Surface Book 3 computer. During the last four years I built up a director of over 900 folders. I now want to transport the folders from my old computer to my new computer.
In the first step, I moved all of the folders from my old computer on to a thumb drive plugged into the old computer's USB slot. I was delighted that the identity of the folder as observed in the transfer thumb drive -- when observed in "Details" mode -- was the same as what it had been on the old computer. That includes the "Date Modified" column. The "Date Modified" column helps me understand what folders I have been rummaging around in lately, so I was happy to see that the intermediate transport thumb drive retained that information for "Date Modified" after I moved the folders from the old laptop to the thumb drive. Everything is fine so far.
However, when I moved the folders from the Thumb Drive to the NEW laptop computer, then the "Date Modified" date was changed to reflect today's date . . . namely the time and date that I moved the files from my thumb drive to the New lap top Document Folder. This is not my hoped-for outcome, because the "Date Modified" is important to me, since it signifies files that have been recently accessed according to the last date or time I modified or added a file into those folders.
QUESTION: How can I move folders from an old computer to a new computer so that I retain the same "Date Modified" identity that existing for each of the folders before I made the transfer of folders from old to new computer?