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How do I stop the date from being modified?
How do I stop the date modified from changing when I just open a file? No files have been saved or updated and the date changes to the current date. This creates a problem for tracking reasons.
Best thing that comes in mind at the moment would be to quit the desktop app when accessing your files and re-launching it after you have viewed them Angel336. Alternatively, you should be able to achieve this by looking at them via the website since you won't be editing them in any way.
I hope this helps to some extent and let me know if you need anything else.
Ah! I see that it's been understood for at least a couple years that dropbox misinterprets any change of file dates, such that it effectively over-rides the touch command.
So when Office changes a file's date back to the past, Dropbox says "Oh! There was a change! Let's make the modified date equal to right now."
It'll be wrong on the website, and on computers other than the one that actually touched the file.
And, weirdly, Dropbox won't fix this obvious bug.
Walter
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThanks for the additional info on this one Dan - would it be OK if I reached out to you via email to your Dropbox associated address so we can have a better look into this and with all of my tools available?
In that way, I'll be able to escalate your request as a question to an expert of my team and see if it's really expected and what can be done to avoid it.
Let me know here and we'll take it from there.
