[dnanian]

I've discussed this in detail with the guys at Alsoft, and it's nothing to be concerned about. "text encoding" is one of those things that was used with versions of Mac OS before OS9. These days, it's synthesized from the file itself.

The "root creation date" is because your drive was formatted at a different time than the file system was created (because the file system was copied from the original drive). Again, it's not a significant problem.

The "files out of order" are bacause we make no attempt to "optimize" the directory. There's little need, these days, to do so... we just step through the files in "natural" order (the order that the OS gives the files to us) and copy them from the source to the destination... optimizing the folder order is left to the OS.

Hope that helps.