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TWNTY1
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2 years ago

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

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 th...
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Jay
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2 years ago

Hi TWNTY1, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

 

Is this the modification date as it appears on the Dropbox site, or on the local machine in Explorer/Finder?

 

This will help me to assist further!

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brucezavon
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

I have the same question.  Today when Dropbox Backup Upgrade was started all the local machine file dates are modified to the time they are being backed up.  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.  Very annoying.

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