From: John Date: 2008-04-26T06:20:07+09:00 Subject: Re: in FileUtils.cp_r *not* replacing read-only files > > Nope, that doesn't help. Nor does removing the "C:". c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1270:in `utime' is a good start. It may be part of the way windowsxp handles times on files - I don't really know to be honest, but I would start by looking at line 1270 of ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb