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What is the official timestamp behaviour of Dropbox files?
I have seen previous posts on this issue, with some of the described behaviour not mimicking what I see in practice, so I'm wondering what the intended behaviour is. When I copy/drag and drop a f...
Rich
Super User II
Super User II
rossmcm wrote:
If I touch the Dropbox file (i.e. use a touch utility, which only updates the LMT) the LMT is updated to the current time on the local file, but the new LMT doesn't propagate through to other instances of Dropbox.
That's working as expected. Dropbox doesn't use timestamps to sync files. It looks at the content of the file to determine if it needs to sync. Changing just a timestamp doesn't update the file's content, so Dropbox won't sync that change. You have to write data to the file in order for Dropbox to recognize it as a changed file.
