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izzywizzy's avatar
izzywizzy
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago

Need to see creation date of backups loaded to Dropbox

 I am using Dropbox as a secondary backup for customer files from my server.  If a customer needs me to restore their data from a particular date I have to locate the files they want by the backup date of file .    I just noticed Dropbox is changing all my file dates to the date I uploaded them from my server to Dropbox.  I cannot figure out how to see the creation date of the files anymore.  This makes them unusable to me as backups since I have no idea what date the backups are for  All the files have a 6/15/23 date now so if I need to restore files from 5/1/23 I can't figure out a way to do that.   Please advise.

 

 

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  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
    Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

    Hey izzywizzy, welcome to the Dropbox Community.

     

    While you can't see the creation date of a file in the list view, if you select a file and look at the (i) info on the right side of the page, specifically in "Properties", you should be able to see the "date created" metadata of each file.

     

    I hope this helps.

     

    Let me know if you have any questions.

    • izzywizzy's avatar
      izzywizzy
      Helpful | Level 5

      My backup consists of 112,000 files.  So I have to look at the properties of each one until I find the date I am looking for?  I hope you are kidding.

      • Jay's avatar
        Jay
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        Hi izzywizzy, the Dropbox site only shows the modification dates, not the creation dates of files.

         

        Depending on how you upload files, the modification date would change to the current date/time, or remain as it was. 

    • NutritionNut's avatar
      NutritionNut
      Helpful | Level 6

      Hey Hannah, this does not work to see the actual creation date. Only "Modified" shows up.