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Frank P E.
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4 years ago

Timestamp on uploaded content not showing the time the actual file was created.

Hello ---- I add some photo from my phone (via windows) to my db folder ---- It  turns out that the date/time of the files were not of the time the  photos were taken  but when I download them from m...
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Walter
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4 years ago

Hey Frank P E., can you clarify if you're using the desktop app to sync those changes back to Dropbox or if you're doing it via the website only? 

 

Also, when you say that the photos were saved to the cloud via google photos, can you please elaborate a bit as it's not quite clear? 

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Frank P E.
Collaborator | Level 9
4 years ago

I am using my win 10 desktop ---  db  clent is installed 

 

I use chrome browser to open google photos,  selected a few  files (jpg's) and download the zip file created by google photos 

 

I then created a  (sub) folder in the  dropbox  folder 

 

I unziped the photo file from the zip file into the  just created folder 

 

fixed the dates of the  jpg file in the folder on the windows computer --- no data was changed  -- the the meta data  of file 

 

I then when to dropbox.com and looked at the noted files, and  updated timestamp were not on the files at dropbox.com

 

 

 

 

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