Microsoft NEEDS to FIX Onedrive so that files reflect their last modified date/time, not the upload date/time.
Microsoft NEEDS to FIX Onedrive so that files reflect their last modified date/time, not the upload date/time. This causes many problems when trying to search files from a specif date.
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Anonymous
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This is a serious problem or, better said, limitation with microsoft onedrive. Indeed, it is something that may well have me migrate to apple, since their icloud upload ensures the original date is kept. I have always been so loyal to microsoft. my husband has been trying to get me to go to mac for years and I have said no. But now that I have files (as old as 2006) to upload into a cloud for safe storage -- and microsoft's platform is going to show all of them as new (versus 15 years old!) I think i will have to demur to my husband, and leave the microsoft fold. A shame, that, for me and for microsoft (although by the looks of things, this has been an issue for years, and they haven't done a think about it, so clearly they don't give a darn). Alas!
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Anonymous
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YES, this used to work just fine till recently (couple of months ago), makes it impossible to find the pictures you are looking for. You upload a 2018 picture, you would expect the 2018 folder gets modified and shows on top so you can find it right away but no, it is buried somewhere and you have to dig for it.
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Anonymous
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Not that I'm absolving MS of it's incompetence in this area, but this is an issue with SharePoint. For those of you who do not realize, OneDrive is actually just a simpler front-end, and uses SharePoint in the backend to actually store documents. OneDrive developers will never be able to change this on their own. This will never be fixed until MS changes the way SharePoint manages document dates. This is but one of the many reasons I can't stand SharePoint.
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Phil
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This is a dangerous flaw that makes onedrive unusable for anything except downstream sharing. I guarantee people who don't realize how onedrive resets the modified date are overwriting their good files with old ones.
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Anonymous
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Microsoft NEEDS to FIX Onedrive so that files reflect their last modified date/time, not the upload date/time
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Dustin Erickson
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Seriously! There are SOOOO Many threads about people complaining about this. I did have my company move to using One Drive but now I regret it as I can only view the created/uploaded date on my Android Device.
FIX THIS ALREADY!
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Anonymous
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how is this still an issue. Such a simple fix too
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bkr009
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How is this still a problem after almost 5 years? This should be so simple and basic to keep the metadata regarding last modified date.
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Jiv
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The solution is box.com, it keeps both modified date and creation date of the files in sync
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110011
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sounds great! Microsoft: listen to your customers - this is a BASIC file property that you need to provide.
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JJ
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Wow, this still hasn't been sorted? Jesus... MS are really appalling
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Anonymous
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4 years on and still no change. This is disastrous!
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Kevin
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I use the xbox game dvr frequently to record clips of gameplay or other in game occurrences for my own memory. I have had the system since launch, and thus have acquired quite a bit of video. Often I do batch uploads to my OneDrive account, and then keep them on storage devices attached to my desktop for later video editing.
It would be great if there was a way to change the default naming convention of these video files when they get uploaded to OneDrive.
Currently all of my files are labeled with the date followed by time, as MM-DD-YYYY_HH-MM-SS_AM(or PM). Ideally for archiving, it would be great if it were YYYY-MM-DD followed by time in a 24 hour format. Perhaps my greatest gripe is that the date and time that is used for these clips is not the time or date it was created, but when it was uploaded to OneDrive. I assume somewhere in the xbox o/s each file has an appropriately labeled temporary filename before it is uploaded to either a feed or OneDrive...is it not possible to keep those properties?An additional thought, maybe a resolution suffix could be added, such as 1080 or 720, or FHD vs HD, since different resolutions are uploaded depending on which system the clip was recorded on.
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Chris Breton
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We have customers wanting to migrate from Google Drive to OneDrive, but they have to hold off, because even if we can migrate from Google Drive to OneDrive and see the original dates, once the OneDrive app sync the files the dates are updated to the date at the time of the sync.
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JohnC
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I have repeatedly reported this issue and quite frankly, MS doesn't care not even about Office 365 family subscribers. I even send numerous photos showing 2 phones side by side with this issue and their incompetent team claims they can't see the issue. They have outsourced their stuff to inexperienced personnel who don't really care.
After months of trying to get them to aknowledge I have decided it's worth paying for Google Drive and say goodbye to BS OneDrive.
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Anonymous
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This is STILL a problem! I moved files from another local folder to my local OneDrive folder so the files would sync with OneDrive in the cloud. Every file that is now synced has had it's modification date changed to the date/time that it was synced. This is the most ******** "feature" I've ever seen! I agree that it is DATA CORRUPTION. Absolutely ridiculous. And, now that OneDrive has done this, there's no data recovery possible.
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M
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Terrible that simply moving a file to a new folder in OneDrive changes the modified date. Now you have no idea what version of the file you have on the system.
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Anonymous
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The modified time is actually IN on One Drive. It's purely when the files are downloaded back to one's machine (either from a browser using Download Folders) or using the App...the Creation and modified time gets reset. This is so lame it's not even worth discussing...Going back to Google Drive.
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Jim Ryan
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I would bet that they don't even consider this a problem. Some engineer somewhere probably said "Well, the file is a new file to OneDrive, so the created date and modified date should be the same as if creating a new file." As is typical for Microsoft, they don't consider users real-life use cases.
When I copy a file from one hard drive to another locally, the modified date is preserved, so why should it be different because the drive is in the cloud?
Also, many users find files by sorting in chronological order. It is an incredibly common use case. The current OneDrive implementation makes this impossible. My company will not move to OneDrive (we're sticking with Google Drive) until this is fixed. It's unfortunate, since we'd love to take advantage of the version tracking and collaboration features of OneDrive + Office 365, but we can't.
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barbara stockman
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Or just give us the ability to change or delete the date
