The Joy Of Creation Creation
Epickson Soto
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 photo uploaded to Dropbox have the original creation date and other meta data (camera used, gps info). It is very important that I have the original creation date on my pictures and have this file be accessible on my other devices.
In Mac and MS Windows, if I move a file (cut/cop), the creation date is preserved. If I copy a file, the creation date becomes the date when the file was copied. So in the Camera Upload app am I copying or moving? Or I can do both?
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.
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I just started moving photos from my Mac and an external hard drive. But am not seeing the photo creation date. That's how I sort all of my photos and have for years. Please tell me there is a way to see that data in DropBox...
I need this because I like to organize photos by date and create subfolders to put them. It is impossible to do this directly in Dropbox because this lack of "file manager" facility, like we find in Google Drive, for example.
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
I am in the same boat as Doug K. My company is migrating files into DropBox for business but on a test run, I note that the original creation date is modified to the date of the file move, not the original date. This information is extremely important to our processes.
I am also having the same problem for a long time. My camera uploads are not sorted in the same way they were taken as Dropbox uploads the files and use the date/time they were uploaded, not the original date/time they were taken.
I'm surprised there has been no answer on this issue. It's absolutely critical for me to have the actual file creation dates preserved and viewable in Dropbox, instead of being replaced by the date it was uploaded to Dropbox.
I am using Dropbox as a secondary backup for customer files from my server. If a customer needs me to restore their data from a particular date I have to locate the files they want by the backup date of file . I just noticed Dropbox is changing all my file dates to the date I uploaded them from my server to Dropbox. I cannot figure out how to see the creation date of the files anymore. This makes them unusable to me as backups since I have no idea what date the backups are for All the files have a 6/15/23 date now so if I need to restore files from 5/1/23 I can't figure out a way to do that. Please advise.
While you can't see the creation date of a file in the list view, if you select a file and look at the (i) info on the right side of the page, specifically in "Properties", you should be able to see the "date created" metadata of each file.
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I only know of one upload method. I login to Dropbox, then pick UPLOAD files or folders then pick the location from my hard drive. If there is another way to upload files into Dropbox that does not change the date of my files please let me know. Having all my backups with the same date makes it hard to find the file I am looking when a customer asks for a restore from a particular date. I don't have time to click on every back up file from last month to figure out which one to download. Someone else recommended I download all the backup files back to my computer then I maybe can view creation date but it takes hours to download 100K files. I have been in business 25 years and have files than span many years. When looking for a file I typically search by date to narrow the search. I tried a test uploading files using Google Drive and they don't rename my files when I upload them. Since there doesn't appear to be a solution I may need to bite the bullet and switch to Google Drive. I hate that.
Install the Dropbox application on your computer, place the files in the Dropbox folder and allow them to sync. All timestamp information will be retained. Uploading a file through the website "creates" the file on the Dropbox server, so the date created is the date uploaded. There's no way to change that. This is similar to downloading a file to your computer from the Internet; most often, the creation date of the file on your computer will be the date you downloaded it, and not the date the original file was created on the server you're downloading from.
I tried that some time ago but Dropbox has to be installed on my server, not my personal computer. Some customers complained that the service was slower than usual so I deleted the Dropbox sync connection which did speed up the server. This solution COULD work however if I can tell the DropBox sync to only sync during certain times of the day (like the middle of the night) to avoid overburdening the server during peak hours. Can I do that with the sync feature?
This solution COULD work however if I can tell the DropBox sync to only sync during certain times of the day (like the middle of the night) to avoid overburdening the server during peak hours. Can I do that with the sync feature?
Hey Jay, this does not make sense to me. Adding to everything @izzywizzy has said so far, I've been using Dropbox for over 10 years and have uploaded 100,000's of files - now I'm seeing that ALL the original creation dates have been lost, even ones in the past that we verified at the time retained their metadata. What gives? This completely obviates the value of Dropbox.
We have been using Asana for our platform feedback for which we use the form. Once the form is submitted, a task is created in Asana but there is no option that a creation date of the task is automatically pulled and added in a field of that task. Is there a way to do so? Can you please guide me here.
I can see my all task. What i am not seeing is creation date in my task where all other customized fields are shown. I have attached a screenshot of where i expect to see the creation date after turning on it from customize menu.
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There is still no way to see the creation date when in the board view or from the task as it appears in your inbox. It would extremely helpful if Asana added this field in these views. Please advise. Thank you
Author Luis Alberto Urrea was born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and American mother. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois-Chicago. His books include The Hummingbird's Daughter and The Devil's Highway. Courtesy Luis Alberto Urrea hide caption
I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of them had books attached. I came to believe the green fuse that drives spring and summer through the world is essentially a literary energy. That the world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.
I was in a small house in Cuernavaca with old healer women. We were eating green Jell-O. One of them told me this: "When you write, you light a bonfire in the spirit world. It is dark there. Lost souls wander alone. Your inner flame flares up. And the lost souls gather near your light and heat. And they see the next artist at work and go there. And they follow the fires until they find their ways home."
Aside from thinking my old Baptist preacher would not be amused by this kind of pagan talk, I recognized the beauty and awe, the deep respect in a woman who didn't read, for the act of literary creation.
Now, if it is all story, I believe we are the narrators. Many writing instructors will tell you that to be a great writer, you must be attentive. Shamans will tell you the same thing: If you want to be a good person, a whole person, wake up! Pay attention! Be here now! Zen monks will go so far as to hit you with a stick. Look!
I used to approach writing like a football game. If I went out there and aggressively saw more, I'd know more and I'd capture more, and I'd write better. Hut, hut, hut: First down and haiku! But I found out something entirely different. I learned that if I went into the world and paid attention (in Spanish, you "lend attention," presta atencion), the world would notice and respond. I would have demonstrated my worthiness to receive the world's gifts. It's a kind of library where you lend attention and receive a story. Or God will toss off a limerick for your pleasure.
In South Carolina recently, I was telling my hosts before a speaking engagement all about this idea. I told them that Story comes on the wings of hummingbirds and dragonflies. My host told me to turn around. A hummingbird hovered outside the window, three inches from the back of my head. After the event, I was in the street enjoying the silence. A dragonfly came and hovered over my head. Both times, all I had to do was look.
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