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David F.61's avatar
David F.61
Helpful | Level 7
9 years ago

I am having an issues with wrong time - stamps on files. Can you help?

I just noticed that a whole bunch of my files in my Dropbox folder are now dated Jan 1, 2016.  I absolutely know they were not created on that date.  In fact, I was not working on anything on New Yea...
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    David F.61
    9 years ago

    This turned out to be corrupt settings on my Mac's Language and Region preferences.  I restored to default and it fixed it.  You are on PC, so see if there is a similar setting which can be restored to see if that fixes it.  For me, it was nothing to do with Dropbox, but was a Mac preference setting.

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carljohan
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9 years ago

Hi David,

You can include screenshots by posting a Dropbox link to the screenshot. Once you hear back from support you can also respond to the email and include a screenshot in your response. The reason I asked you to include names of specific files was so that the support agent would be able to see if the files were edited that day or not. And yes, if the file was created at a later date, then it should not show an earlier modified date.

Cheers

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