(the files get the correct modified dates)ģ) Another member of our team (User B) has a copy on his desktop and has made some changes to 50 of the files. the files are dated 2008-Jan-01 to 2021-Jan-01)Ģ) One of our team (User A) copies the files to our Google Shared Drive. Lets say we have a small drafting team and are doing work with one of our customers using Windows and Google Drive for Desktop (G:\ drive):ġ) The customer sends our team a set of 200 architectural CAD files for an important project. (e.g. This behavior creates situations where data is lost because a user or utility makes the wrong decision about a file because the modified date is incorrect. It creates many problems with file and directory comparison tools, backup tools, etc. The behavior of Google Drive for a file copy operation with overwrite is not standard or expected behavior for most file systems (e.g. (Checked by comparing the modified file time on "G:\My Drive" to the same file in the web browser). The modified time is the current time instead of the source file's modified time.ī) The file's local cached metadata in Google Drive for Desktop does not reflect the same modified time as the cloud storage. There are now two problems:Ī) The copied file has the wrong modified time in the the cloud (checked using Google Drive via web browser). (The file's modified time is correct, both in the cloud and the local cached modified time.)Ģ) Copy the same local file to the "G:\My Drive" folder and overwrite the original. The modified time matches the original source local file. Expected behavior: When copying a file and overwriting an existing file, the modified time of the source file should be preserved.Įxample using Google Drive for Desktop (Windows):ġ) Copy a new file to the "G:\My Drive\" folder. the modified time in the cloud matches the modified time of the local file.)Ģ) Upload the same file to Google Drive via web browser, overwriting the existing file, and it now has the wrong modified time. The file modified date is an important piece of information about the file and should not be lost by a file copy operation.Įxample using Google Drive with web browser file upload:ġ) Upload a new file to Google Drive via web browser. Google Drive does not preserve file modified date when copying and overwriting an existing file.
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