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AgentOrange
Collaborator | Level 8
3 years ago

Refuses to preserve correct creation date

I have tried to upload files without losing the original creation date on this main account(which I have a 2TB subscription on), and on a new non-subscription account that I created on a device I’ve ...
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Mark
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3 years ago
Ariel S.1 wrote:

There have been no updates--how does one upload files to from a device to a specific folder on Dropbox and maintain the original creation date? Certainly I can do this if I use an external hard drive for example. As we speak, I am cleaning up my Mac and realizing that I can't sort by date because they are all dated now.

Thanks

Have you had a look at https://help.dropbox.com/organize/modified-date ?

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Ariel S.1
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Thank you and to try and help the next person (because this seems important enough and I spent so much time trying find an existing thread)...the end answer is that one MUST use the Dropbox Computer based app to upload files as opposed to what I had been doing which was when "cleaning' laptop---I would open a browser window and drag the files over in chunks and then delete them from laptop as I went.

 

Thanks!

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