WebDav Transfers - Retain original File Modification Date

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#1

Hi all, Merry Christmas!

I recently started using IceDrive - More or less testing and trying to move up a few things to the cloud - While setting up rclone and moving a few GB of files, I noted the file creation date/time is that of the rclone upload.

For example, I copied a file that had been modified on December 18th, but on the Web it appears modified as 25 Dec 2022 20:56:08 << The time which rclone copied the file.

Now, I understand this is the file creation date here on IceDrive, but what about the file last modification date for this file? Is it possible we could the option to retain the original file creation/modification date in a future release? (At least for files transferred to the Web)

I have only tested this using rclone/WebDav, I will now try using the Windows sync client.

Apologies if this was previously mentioned, I tried searching in previous posts but didn’t find anything similar.

Thank you all!

#2

Hey @carguello welcome to the community! I will put your suggestion to our dev team to consider for a future update.

Merry Christmas to you as well!

#3

Hi All

Is there any update on this?

#4

I found same issue in the icedrive folders and in the icedrive encrypted folders. Any file modified in the encrypted folder does not change the date stamp of the file. I need to save the file with new name to change the file date stamp. This seems to be a bug. But not fixed even after 2 years of reporting ?

( I had reported this issue last year too Apr2023. )

#5

Hi, it’s been almost a full year since the last question was asked (Apr 2024, now almost Apr 2025). There has not be an answer from the IceDrive team since Dec 2022. Anyway, from my own tests, the modification date seems to update as follows:

Original file uploaded retains modification date?
:white_check_mark: IceDrive Website
:white_check_mark: IceDrive Portable (Mac)
:x: IceDrive Mount (Mac)
:x: IcedriveCLI-v3.33 (Linux) - Mount cp -p (preserve) says it’s unsupported function
:white_check_mark: IcedriveCLI-v3.33 (Linux) - Upload <file/folder list>: upload specified files and folders to the cloud. (but I can’t seem to choose the path where to put it on the IceDrive). Update: It works if I put the <base_folder> as the argument, with the files already placed in the correct folder that is on IceDrive.
:x: IcedriveMounted-v3.33-x86_64.AppImage - Mount
:thinking: IcedriveMounted-v3.33-x86_64.AppImage - Sync
:x: webdav. icedrive. io

:thinking: - means I’m testing the feature now. the current result is that it does keep the original file’s modification date ( :white_check_mark: ), but some files fail to sync and there’s no automatic or manual retry ( :x: ). The error for these files are “Transfer failed: unable to store chunk”. Still testing…

Any updates on this? I need to do proper backups programmatically, but the integrity of the original modification date integrity is lost each time, more importantly through one of these:

  • IcedriveCLI-v3.33 (Linux)
  • IcedriveMounted-v3.33 (Linux)
  • Webdav

Also, thanks for all your efforts so far. I know dates are different per OS - Windows, Mac, Linux… so I understand that it’s hard to make sure it all works properly. :pray: