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Steve53
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5 years ago

File date changing

Hi  I have seen a number of posts about DropBox changing file dates to "date modified" which appears to be the date the file was uploaded to DropBox.  This is weird because if you are just uploadin...
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C-A
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Hi Jay, this happens to me almost twice a year and is very disappointing. It seems occurs when dropbox makes by itself some sync process, but is like starting all from zero cause modified date in finder are like creation date
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Hannah
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2 years ago

Hey C-A, thanks for reaching out to us here.

 

You mentioned that this happens to you almost twice a year; so this is not consistent behavior?

 

Does it otherwise work as normal?

 

Any additional info on the behavior you're seeing would be really helpful.

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