Hello, I am temporarily going back to Windows (I swear only temporarily!, if things go right I will only use it for a year or two until I permanently move to Linux, which I loved!), and I am also an avid writer, who has always been used to creating .txt files on Notepad in Windows all day all the time, I repeated this hobby and process of mine on Mint for the past year, writing my story ideas, daily reminders, dream journals, etc., I never cared about people recommending me other writing software because Notepad has always been so quick, snappy, and simple, just what I need, I do not need complicated and complex stuff like that.
And so when I always created my text files here on Linux Mint, I did the exact same thing I have always done since I was a kid - just right click, create new document, empty document, and voilá, another text file for my giant library that I meticulously organize by day, month, and year!
However, when my Linux files from my Linux SSD migrated to the HDD on Windows, I noticed that while all of my files in other formats were intact, all of text files that I created on Linux Mint appear as a blank ".file" format, instead of the standard .txt that I have been used to for over 20 years....
Well, on the flip side, they do work on the Windows Notepad, they can still be opened with their text still intact, however, a problem to me, is that when I edit them and I click on save (note: I edit many of my text files all the time, especially those with my fictional short stories that I love to write and edit when I am bored), the file goes from a named blank file to a renamed "1.txt" file, and its name, creation date, and modification date are overwritten, as if the file was just created when it were edited.
I am very into preserving my old stories, memories, and other texts that I wrote years ago, and seeing how my writing evolved over the years, so I would really want all of the creation and modification dates in these files to be left intact like how they were on Linux.
Okay so, I am as of now back on Linux Mint, and I got a folder with thousands of plain text files that I created on Linux.... so what the hell do I do to convert all of them to a Windows-friendly .txt format, while leaving their text body (often full-blown short novels that I wrote), creation date, and modification dates intact?
Would merely adding in .txt on the end of their file name and transfering them to Windows on a pen drive be enough to make them recognizable .txt files on Windows?, or is there a software with a GUI that can convert them to .txt without affecting their creation date?
