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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's avatar
    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

Hmm... In order to troubleshoot this further, we'd need to look at some specific files that shows this modified date and see if they have been changed at that time. In order to do so, could you please contact us at https://www.dropbox.com/support with one or two examples of files where you are seeing this, as well as a screenshot of the date modified so that we can have a closer look.

Cheers!

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