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pentagramwookie's avatar
pentagramwookie
Helpful | Level 6
3 months ago

Loss of reliable “Date Modified” behavior is destroying file discovery and productivity

I need to raise a serious productivity issue that has fundamentally broken how I work in Dropbox. For years, my workflow depended on being able to sort and find files reliably by Date Modified. This...
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Hannah's avatar
Hannah
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3 months ago

Thanks for taking the time to post to our Community, pentagramwookie.

First of all, I wanted to say that I understand where you're coming from here. 

We really appreciate that you took the time to write your thoughts on the "date modified" sorting option.

I'll make sure your feedback and your comments get passed along to the people that need to hear them.

Now, just to clarify, are you only seeing this behavior on the desktop app (local Dropbox folder) or the website as well?

Let me know!

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