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OneDrive File Timestamps
Hello I have recently uploaded data from our network to OneDrive on my Microsoft 365 business account. I was going through the files on our network and needed to send someone a copy of a documen...
Hi, Harveer
Thank you for responding to my query.
I half-expected this to be the case noting how downloaded files are usually timestamped. I was hoping that OneDrive for business use might preserve the original Created/Modified info.
Thank you for the help 🙂
Thank you for responding to my query.
I half-expected this to be the case noting how downloaded files are usually timestamped. I was hoping that OneDrive for business use might preserve the original Created/Modified info.
Thank you for the help 🙂
two years later and this is still a default behavior? I am sorry but I find this pretty silly and it might cause a lot of bad surprises to people who uploaded files and later realized that all timestamps are messed up!
You say use a OneDrive client. However this has serious downsides - what if I want to just upload and backup some data from a PC where I don't use and regularly access my OneDrive? I don't want to install OneDrive client just for this one upload and I don't want the rest of my OneDrive content appear on that PC. What would you do in such case? Maybe use my laptop with OneDrive client to just copy all these things into the local OneDrive folder, let it sync and then unsync those folders in settings so they get deleted locally?
- I also got this bad surprise after migrating over 2TB of personal data from Google Drive to OneDrive, part of which I unfortunately lost the timestamps. Timestamps can never be lost or ignored, since for the user and for automated tasks they are an important criterion of dissension about how old or new, how updated a certain file is in relation to others or other versions of the same file. Microsoft seems to ignore all of this. Now, I'm here trying to find out if there is any workaround before undoing this migration.
