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    <title>topic How do I stop the date from being modified? in Security and Permissions</title>
    <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Security-and-Permissions/How-do-I-stop-the-date-from-being-modified/m-p/302783#M1363</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;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.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2022 12:05:44 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Angel336</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2022-07-26T12:05:44Z</dc:date>
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      <title>How do I stop the date from being modified?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Security-and-Permissions/How-do-I-stop-the-date-from-being-modified/m-p/302783#M1363</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;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.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2022 12:05:44 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Security-and-Permissions/How-do-I-stop-the-date-from-being-modified/m-p/302783#M1363</guid>
      <dc:creator>Angel336</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-07-26T12:05:44Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Date Modified</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Security-and-Permissions/How-do-I-stop-the-date-from-being-modified/m-p/302788#M1364</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hey there&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/792460"&gt;@Angel336&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;- sorry to hear about this. I'll try to help!&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;From what I understand you're opening your Dropbox files locally on your computer (while using our desktop app) - just to view them and this alters the timestamp of the last modification's exact date and time when you view them online (on our website) and/or within your computer's Dropbox Folder.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Please let me know if I understood correctly and provide any other piece of information (or even &lt;A href="http://www.take-a-screenshot.org/" target="_blank"&gt;screenshots&lt;/A&gt;) you think might help our investigation on this matter.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Some additional notes on this:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;A. If the date modified time appears to not match the time you would expect based on your timezone can you please perform the following steps:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;OL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Confirm that ‘Automatically detect timezone’ is checked on&amp;nbsp;your &lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/account" target="_self"&gt;account's settings page&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Confirm that the timezone of your computer is set correctly too.&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;/OL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;If both are set correctly please provide the following information:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;OL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;A &lt;A href="http://www.take-a-screenshot.org/" target="_blank"&gt;screenshot&lt;/A&gt; of your computer’s timezone setting.&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;The timezone you expect your files to be displayed in. For example PT is Pacific Time.&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;/OL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Thanks!&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2018 20:50:16 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Security-and-Permissions/How-do-I-stop-the-date-from-being-modified/m-p/302788#M1364</guid>
      <dc:creator>Walter</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-10-12T20:50:16Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Date Modified</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Security-and-Permissions/How-do-I-stop-the-date-from-being-modified/m-p/302789#M1365</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi Walter. The original date of the folder was 6/7/2010. I opened the folder and when I exited, the date modified was changed to 10/12/2018. Nothing was modified. I hadn't even opened any of the documents in the folder. This has happened before when opening documents and closing without making any changes or resaving and the date changes.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Any way to turn off this feature?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2018 20:59:38 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Security-and-Permissions/How-do-I-stop-the-date-from-being-modified/m-p/302789#M1365</guid>
      <dc:creator>Angel336</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-10-12T20:59:38Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Date Modified</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Security-and-Permissions/How-do-I-stop-the-date-from-being-modified/m-p/302791#M1366</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;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&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/792460"&gt;@Angel336&lt;/a&gt;. 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.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I hope this helps to some extent and let me know if you need anything else.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2018 21:08:40 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Security-and-Permissions/How-do-I-stop-the-date-from-being-modified/m-p/302791#M1366</guid>
      <dc:creator>Walter</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-10-12T21:08:40Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Date Modified</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Security-and-Permissions/How-do-I-stop-the-date-from-being-modified/m-p/330623#M1367</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I've got this bug, and it's a serious problem.&amp;nbsp; It happens irregularly - sorry! - when using Excel or Word to view files (Win 7 Pro x64 with O365 x86).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If you want File Explorer in one window, while opening &amp;amp; editing &amp;amp; closing Office files (without saving them) you'll see that Office has some unintuitive ways of handling work in progress.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;But Walter, do I correctly understand your reply to be an acknowledgement that, yes, this is a known bug?&amp;nbsp; Or are you telling &lt;a href="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/792460"&gt;@Angel336&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;how to address a bug that you don't actually believe to exist?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Certainly workarounds to bugs introduced by Dropbox would include not running Dropbox (but thanks for the suggestion, Walter).&amp;nbsp; But questions remain:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;* Is this a known bug?&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;It's known to Walter, sure.&amp;nbsp; But if we assume Dropbox to have grown-up-style bug tracking, is this in the system as a confirmed bug?&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;* Is this being worked on? Does the bug have an appropriately-high priority?&lt;BR /&gt;For those few of us who use Dropbox collaboratively, or who use it for actually-important working documents, there is SIGNIFICANCE to a file's modified date getting changed.&amp;nbsp; ("Who messed with the 2015 reconciliation?!?")&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2019 01:16:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Security-and-Permissions/How-do-I-stop-the-date-from-being-modified/m-p/330623#M1367</guid>
      <dc:creator>Dan S.26</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-02-25T01:16:15Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Date Modified</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Security-and-Permissions/How-do-I-stop-the-date-from-being-modified/m-p/330626#M1368</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;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.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;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."&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;It'll be wrong&amp;nbsp;on the website, and on computers other than the one that actually touched the file.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;And, weirdly, Dropbox won't fix this obvious bug.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2019 01:34:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Security-and-Permissions/How-do-I-stop-the-date-from-being-modified/m-p/330626#M1368</guid>
      <dc:creator>Dan S.26</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-02-25T01:34:25Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Date Modified</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Security-and-Permissions/How-do-I-stop-the-date-from-being-modified/m-p/330773#M1369</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Thanks 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?&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;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.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Let me know here and we'll take it from there.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2019 18:46:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Security-and-Permissions/How-do-I-stop-the-date-from-being-modified/m-p/330773#M1369</guid>
      <dc:creator>Walter</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-02-25T18:46:03Z</dc:date>
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