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Updating file attributes for video and picture files in Windows

Tags: ActiveState, Perl, Windows Vista and Perl 5.10
This is not necessarily a Perl question; as utilities may exist to do this as well...  Here is what I would like to do to ALL video or picture files located in a directory:

1. Copy over the value of ANY of the date attributes to another date field.  For instance, I should be able to copy the value of "Date Modified" to "Data Taken" or vice versa.  Same for "Date Created" and ALL other dates that show up in Windows Vista.

2. Set the value of ANY video / picture file attribute to anything.  I tried this using Windows itself, but it works sometimes and fails at other times without any reason (perhaps a bug in Windows?)
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Question Asked By: jmohsin
Solution Provided By: APNFSSC
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