You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Status:
Gathering Support
Preserve file Creation Dates(and other metadata) in mobile app versions
The ability to preserve, view, sort by, etc the original Creation Dates(and other metadata) of files is missing or severely limited in the Dropbox mobile apps. People who don’t use Dropbox primari...
KalenJ That’s true. Thanks for pointing that out.
I checked out the Box backup app a few days ago and it also shows the creation date. I PREFER using Dropbox, mainly because I’ve been using it for years and all my files are already there but if it cannot preserve my creation dates for my pictures and let me view & sort by the creation dates for ALL my files, including the documents, audio files and all the other files that you can’t even see or edit a modified date for, I may have to switch over, at least my most important files and my subscription. Because I don’t have access to a computer currently and probably won’t for awhile. Like many people I know I do EVERYTHING using my iPhone and maintain access to my backed up files on a cheap android tablet, kindle fire, and any future non-computer devices I will eventually have to switch to. I’ll need to be able to access my files WITH their creation dates(and be able to sort by them, and now that I think about it, search by creation date range too) from all my past devices on future devices.
I had an old Dropbox account before the current one but it was deleted because I didn’t have a phone or computer from 2013-2018 and didn’t see the emails saying that they were going to remove it if I didn’t log into it. THAT I’m very upset about because I had important stuff in there and by the time I got the email account back up and running on my new phone, it was too late. I used the email account for my streaming services but I didn’t have a device to check the emails on which seems unfair. It wouldn’t have been that hard to send me a zipped file containing all my Dropbox files they were deleting… or at least a link to a zipped file.
In my opinion Box is much better than Google Photos in many respects including the creation date feature because, at least for me, Google Photos takes forever to upload and sometimes still doesn’t seem to actually UPLOAD my photos. It seems to just gain access to them on the device they were uploaded on UNLESS you manually add them individually to self-created albums. And even then they don’t stay in there if they haven’t completely downloaded from the iCloud backup that stores the original quality picture. I tried this. I couldn’t see my android pics on my iPhone unless I had put them in an album I myself created and added them to …& vice versa.
But I would prefer to keep using my Dropbox account and subscription. I just need this VERY basic feature that I always ASSUMED was a given across ALL cloud storage services. Allowing computer users access to a feature but not those who only use phones/tablets is discriminating against us when we are PAYING (or not paying if that be the case) the SAME yet not receiving the same BASIC functionality.