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The Badge shows a file was edited 420 years ago
Is anyone else having issues with Badge, randomly showing "<user> last edited this file 420 years ago".
it seems to affect both mac and windows users and appears to be random- in that we can't ...
I know this issue sucks big time, and I hate being the bearer of bad news...but
https://help.dropbox.com/installs/badge-overview
The timing and exact functionality of these features may change, and Dropbox doesn't provide warranties on the performance of these features.
Thank You, TeeDub!!!
We have the same issue and here's what I think of DropBox's reply to you:
That is COMPLETE AND TOTAL BS!!
and yes, I meant to yell at you;-)
In our shop we are running 3 dif versions of Windows & 3 of macOS.
Dropbox App fully updated on all machines and we still get "edited 421 years ago" on some files.
it's the same wrong edit date on a few files across ALL users and all computers.
One of the main reasons we use dropbox is because of the file version mgmt and the badge showing who and when a user edited a file.
That functionality is critical to our business ........all day long, every day.
If y'all cannot resolve this (clearly dropbox) error then I will have to seek another vendor's solution.
Which, I don't want to do as I like dropbox ............except for this unresolved bug.
Dropbox has ignored this issue for more than a year, has offered useless advice and refused to investigate the issue properly.
We still have the issue, and the syncing issue might be part of the cause- but how about Dropbox actually checks and provides a fix.
It isn't just excel files either. I can't see how the sync issue is responsible as when you open a file on your desktop- it downloads a copy so must therefore be synced with the server.
There's a lot I like about dropbox but if the 420 years bug remains unfixable you wonder if they have really tried.
hey @dropboxsupport any chance of some interest in this issue???
If anyone is curious about 1601, it's because computers store the file modification time as the number of intervals that have elapsed since the "epoch", aka Time Zero, and on Windows, the epoch is January 1st 1601 (Why is the Win32 epoch January 1, 1601? - The Old New Thing (microsoft.com))
Hence if the stored file time defaults to zero, it'll come out as 1/1/1601, i.e. 421 years ago.
We see this pretty often at work but it's more a cause of mirth than inconvenience, it always sorts itself out after a short while.
Sorts itself out? We've been waiting for years. We would like dropbox to either remove the badge indication of time since edited or fix it.
It sorts itself out because once its downloaded and reopened, it will show correctly. I stated this in a previous post. But I agree with the sentiment of others that they should be able to fix this when the file is double-clicked, downloaded, and opened at the same time.
We have downloaded and reopened files hundreds of times. We have a team of people that are all connected and we all literally download and reopen all day long. This has been an issue for YEARS.
