Curious about A, B, C, and D drives? Learn what they mean and how to use them effectively with Dropbox in this handy guide! - check it out now!
Forum Discussion
SusanR
8 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Incorrect Timestamp shown to uploaded files
I noticed yesterday that the timestamp on my uploaded and edited files are anywhere between 6 and 9 hours earlier. My Time zone settings are set correctly.
- 3 years ago
Jens Jensen wrote:
This operation itself seems to be easy and straight forward, but first I need to know if there are any unwanted side effects of doing so ?
Nothing changes other than the email address. All links and sharing will remain unaffected and no directories will change their name (I can't think of any function that names a folder based on your email).
What platform and what applications is this occurring in? What Dropbox version are you running? The more details you can provide, the easier it will be to assist you.
For me, time stamps are a few hours behind on Word docs, at least when platform = Windows 7 and application = MS Word 365. (I haven't noticed yet whether it happens for Word docs when working on Mac OS X El Capitan.) FWIW, the time stamp is wrong on Dropbox.com, but not when I check the same doc on my Mac's Dropbox application, the time stamp is correct.
Brownd Have you checked your timezone at https://www.dropbox.com/account?
Hey all,
To follow up on this one, we were able to reproduce problems late last week where files uploaded to Dropbox via the website have the wrong modified date/time. This doesn't appear to be affecting files uploaded via our desktop application, only the website. Our engineering team are currently working on a fix to this issue, and I'll loop back here once the fix is out.
Thanks for reporting this, and apologies for the inconvenience caused!
Frank
About Delete, edit, and organize
Solve issues with deleting, editing, and organizing files and folders in your Dropbox account with support from the Dropbox Community.
Need more support
If you need more help you can view your support options (expected response time for an email or ticket is 24 hours), or contact us on X or Facebook.
For more info on available support options for your Dropbox plan, see this article.
If you found the answer to your question in this Community thread, please 'like' the post to say thanks and to let us know it was useful!