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Andy T.3's avatar
Andy T.3
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Camera Upload- Preserve Original Photo creation Dates?

Hello, I have a great deal of photos on my Iphone that I am contemplating to use DropBox. Archiving is very important to me with original creation dates. If I use the Camere Upload app, will the pho...
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    8 years ago

    This has not changed and, with the upcoming changes to the way photos are handled, I don't see this changing anytime soon.

     

    The modified date will always be the date that the file was uploaded. Your photos still retain the date that they were taken within the EXIF data of the file. That information, however, is not displayed on Dropbox.

Doug K.17's avatar
Doug K.17
Helpful | Level 5
9 years ago

I am having the same issue, my company has a Business Account with virtually limitless storage. I have moved "old" files into an Archive file to save but not be current on everyones hard drive but when moved/copied files take on copy/move date. Is there anyway to interrogate file to get the original creation date? This information is very important to my company

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