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Jennifer B.11
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

How to keep the "date modified" from changing when transferring files to dropbox?

My computer is full so I have been manually "option" copying my files to my dropbox. I just went into one of my client folders and noticed that each and every file now have a revised "date modified" ...
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tinyapps
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If you can access both Dropbox directories via file sharing/UNC paths, drive enclosure, USB file transfer cable, etc, then you can clone just the file and folder "Date modified" values from one Dropbox directory (e.g., "Dropbox1") to another (e.g., "Dropbox2") via:

robocopy "\path\to\Dropbox1" "\path\to\Dropbox2" /XD ".dropbox.cache" /XF ".dropbox" /E /DCOPY:T /COPY:T

Backup, test, and understand before proceeding. See Clone "Date modified" values without recopying files for more information.

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51m0n
New member | Level 2
2 years ago
To help mitigate this problem on the Mac you can set Finder to display the date created either instead of, or as well as, the date modified. To do this, within Finder go to View>Show View Options.

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