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izzywizzy
Helpful | Level 5
3 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 da...
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Jay
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3 years ago

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. 

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NutritionNut
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

Hey Jay, this does not make sense to me. Adding to everything @izzywizzy has said so far, I've been using Dropbox for over 10 years and have uploaded 100,000's of files - now I'm seeing that ALL the original creation dates have been lost, even ones in the past that we verified at the time retained their metadata. What gives? This completely obviates the value of Dropbox.

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