diff --git a/pkg/fsutil/file.go b/pkg/fsutil/file.go
index 7d91679fe..1bf982666 100644
--- a/pkg/fsutil/file.go
+++ b/pkg/fsutil/file.go
@@ -11,29 +11,55 @@ import (
 	"github.com/stashapp/stash/pkg/logger"
 )
 
+// CopyFile copies the contents of the file at srcpath to a regular file at dstpath.
+// It will copy the last modified timestamp
+// If dstpath already exists the function will fail.
+func CopyFile(srcpath, dstpath string) (err error) {
+	r, err := os.Open(srcpath)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	w, err := os.OpenFile(dstpath, os.O_CREATE|os.O_EXCL, 0666)
+	if err != nil {
+		r.Close() // We need to close the input file as the defer below would not be called.
+		return err
+	}
+
+	defer func() {
+		r.Close() // ok to ignore error: file was opened read-only.
+		e := w.Close()
+		// Report the error from w.Close, if any.
+		// But do so only if there isn't already an outgoing error.
+		if e != nil && err == nil {
+			err = e
+		}
+		// Copy modified time
+		if err == nil {
+			// io.Copy succeeded, we should fix the dstpath timestamp
+			srcFileInfo, e := os.Stat(srcpath)
+			if e != nil {
+				err = e
+				return
+			}
+
+			e = os.Chtimes(dstpath, srcFileInfo.ModTime(), srcFileInfo.ModTime())
+			if e != nil {
+				err = e
+			}
+		}
+	}()
+
+	_, err = io.Copy(w, r)
+	return err
+}
+
 // SafeMove attempts to move the file with path src to dest using os.Rename. If this fails, then it copies src to dest, then deletes src.
 func SafeMove(src, dst string) error {
 	err := os.Rename(src, dst)
 
 	if err != nil {
-		in, err := os.Open(src)
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-		defer in.Close()
-
-		out, err := os.Create(dst)
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-		defer out.Close()
-
-		_, err = io.Copy(out, in)
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-
-		err = out.Close()
+		err = CopyFile(src, dst)
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}