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Jaime_SVQ
8 years agoExplorer | Level 3
SHow file creation Date using server time
I need to show that a file was not modified since uploaded to dropbox. I mean, i need to show the creation and midifcation date of a file on the server side, because the creation date in windows can falsified just changing the PC time.
Can you help me, please
- Mark
Super User II
Not sure what you are actually trying to do, however, no, I'm afraid not. It isnt possible to specify which server dates/times a file relate to.
www.dropbox.com/events, however, will show when things were uploaded/deleted etc.- Jaime_SVQExplorer | Level 3
Thanks Mark for your quick answer.
I want to be able to show to other people that a file has not been modified since it was uploaded to dropbox.
As the file modified time can be set manually in windows, I want to show the timestamp of the file on the server side, a parameter that I can not modify.
I have been reading the API set of dropbox and found that the command "alpha/get metadata" returns something like this:
"client_modified": "2017-05-25T11:21:40Z", "server_modified": "2017-05-25T17:13:19Z", "rev": "a874f899e6c", "content_hash": "101e42861bc47204006ef0a6afdbef8d5e2e4ff75cce321821830a457919dfea"
That information includes a hash of the file, and also a server modified timestamp.
Even more, the command "list_revisions" give that informatio for all the previos version of the file, with several timestamps and hash of the file.
Do you think that those arguments can be used to show, beyond reasonable doubt (but not necesary in legal terms), that the file has not been modified?
Thanks, Jaime
- Mark
Super User II
Ah, if you'd said you were using the API I'd have moved you to the API section of the forums - your current post is in the general area!
Hopefully one of the team will have some ideas from there :)
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