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Preserving 'creation' time and date stamps
Hi,
I am having issues in preserving the original 'creation' date and time of the files that are synching onto Laptop B, originally synched onto my Dropbox account from Laptop A.
The file...
The answer to this is simple. Zip the files with "preserve folder info" checked when creating new winzip file before upload then upload the zipped file to any cloud based storage system. The zip file with show current date but the files in the the zipped file will have original timestamp.
Zipping files and folders does preserve timestamps for files but not for folders. I could not find "preserve folder info" as an option for the native zip function in Windows 10. In fact, there are no options when zipping files and folders.
I still haven't found a solution that preserves both file and folder timestamps. It's incredible to me that this problem still exists and none of the cloud-based backup/sync services are doing anything about it.
I am sure it is there. There is a check box
