Changing file status to or from available offline changes the Modified Date

Question

When i change the status of a file or folder from online (located on disk) to offline (available on Dropbox Cloud only) or the other way,
its changing the Modified Date, is there a way bypassing that, so only real modified files will be effected?

Jay · Answer

Hi TWNTY1, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
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Is this the modification date as it appears on the Dropbox site, or on the local machine in Explorer/Finder?
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This will help me to assist further!

brucezavon · Answer

I have the same question.&nbsp; Today when Dropbox Backup Upgrade was started all the local machine file dates are modified to the time they are being backed up.&nbsp; So now I have hundreds of files on my Mac in one folder for example that were from 2006-2008 that show as "modified" today so I have no way to look up a file based on when it was last used.&nbsp; Very annoying.

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