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David F.61
Helpful | Level 7
9 years ago

I am having an issues with wrong time - stamps on files. Can you help?

I just noticed that a whole bunch of my files in my Dropbox folder are now dated Jan 1, 2016.  I absolutely know they were not created on that date.  In fact, I was not working on anything on New Yea...
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    David F.61
    9 years ago

    This turned out to be corrupt settings on my Mac's Language and Region preferences.  I restored to default and it fixed it.  You are on PC, so see if there is a similar setting which can be restored to see if that fixes it.  For me, it was nothing to do with Dropbox, but was a Mac preference setting.

David F.61's avatar
David F.61
Helpful | Level 7
9 years ago

This turned out to be corrupt settings on my Mac's Language and Region preferences.  I restored to default and it fixed it.  You are on PC, so see if there is a similar setting which can be restored to see if that fixes it.  For me, it was nothing to do with Dropbox, but was a Mac preference setting.

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