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Preserving time-date stamps
When I download a file from my dropbox account, it gets a new time-date stamp. When I download a folder and extract the zipped folder, all the files get new time-date stamps. It's important for me to...
That is sooooo upsetting. So I drag a folder into dropbox and the modified time is now! I then down load it five minutes from now and the modified time is also five minute from now. Is this true? Seems like it. Sorry, that is messed up. I wish I could stay, but that will never ever do.
Jay
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox Staff"tec"
This is such a nonsense answer. It would be a side splitter if it weren't such a frustrating, untrue answer. When I copy a file onto a memory stick or an exernal hard drive it manages to keep the date modified. When I copy files from dropbox onto my computer it gets the date modified correct too. So why can't up load to dropbox and keep the correct modified dates....and no, don't tell me they that they are being created for the first time.
I feel sorry for all those people who upload their picuters only to find that they now all have a date modified as today. What a blessed joke.
- Rich
Super User II
jaresing wrote:
and no, don't tell me they that they are being created for the first time.
Ok, I won't tell you that, but it's true.
I feel sorry for all those people who upload their picuters only to find that they now all have a date modified as today.
That's what the Date Taken field in a photo's EXIF data is for. The modified date of a file can change easily with many different file actions, none of which are restricted to Dropbox functionality. It's not the date you should be relying on for when a photo was taken.
Yeah, that is what shows up when I sort my files (not really).
Its not my pictres I am worried about, it is the rest of my work file history. Modified/saved dates are crucial peices of information.
The first cloud operation to actually figure this out wins! To say it is not a problem is moronic, but yet at dropbox we get people like you who always tell the customer that it is their fault. Like a salesman......."you don't need that feature." At the very least you could pretend like Dropbox is forward thinking and trying to solve its shortcomings. Instead we get somthing even you don't beleive "they are being created for the first time." Nonsense. I can use an external hard drive, I can FTP, I can copy files from fropbox onto my computer and retain this basic inofrmation but upload them into Dropbox and that very basic information is lost. If I wasn't already bald I would be pulling out my hair.
I'm not allowed to use the dropbox application on my computer because the synchronization is unattended. I have another sync program that allows me to do the synchronization on demand. Unfortunately it has the same time stamp issue. Which means I either need a new third party sync program or need to go to a cloud storage site that my current sync app will work correctly with. I tested Google. It works. I probably should test one drive and amazon . I just need to figure out which of the big three I will regretfully go to.
