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What is the actual modified xxxx ? Is earlier / now / ahead-of the computer date ? I have only seen one file in my computer that has a modified before the created date? I did answer some of your questions
Is the computer date correct ? (In days gone by a computer CMOS battery might die and suddenly you found yourself transported back to 1970.) Only time my computer time changes is daylight saving time. It changes automatically. I have never noticed the date to change backwards, only to the next day.
Gimp does not change dates in-its-self, it will use as a modified date whatever the computer is using.
My OS (Windows) has for each file's properties the created date and time, the modified date and time and the accessed date and time....I thought things had changed in gimp is all - not recently, it has been for some time. Doesn't give a modified date or time now for files when browsing for them from within gimp
There are some rules to note:
Transfer / Move / Windows shift-and-drag will keep an existing modified date.
Copy / Windows ctrl-drag files sets the modified date to the computer time.
But I don't get a time at all
You will get your unknown back to computer time when you Save-As / Export-As the files even if you have not edited then. That is the same as creating a new file. Maybe it is because I have been overwriting?
A little animation of that https://i.imgur.com/fTJ5r95.mp4 Four files, just opened and the Exported-As with the same name. Modified is back to computer time. I'll check it out after
Just a guess, but if you transferred the files from cloud storage, which is probably on a linux server, the file timestamps could be non-compatible with Windows file system. Who knows. All of them?
Thank you for all your time here in trying to tell me what the problem is
By the way I just made 60 new files in gimp and exported them each with a different name. No modified time
What is the actual modified xxxx ? Is earlier / now / ahead-of the computer date ? I have only seen one file in my computer that has a modified before the created date? I did answer some of your questionsIs the computer date correct ? (In days gone by a computer CMOS battery might die and suddenly you found yourself transported back to 1970.) Only time my computer time changes is daylight saving time. It changes automatically. I have never noticed the date to change backwards, only to the next day.
Gimp does not change dates in-its-self, it will use as a modified date whatever the computer is using.
My OS (Windows) has for each file's properties the created date and time, the modified date and time and the accessed date and time....I thought things had changed in gimp is all - not recently, it has been for some time. Doesn't give a modified date or time now for files when browsing for them from within gimp
There are some rules to note:
Transfer / Move / Windows shift-and-drag will keep an existing modified date.
Copy / Windows ctrl-drag files sets the modified date to the computer time.
But I don't get a time at all
You will get your unknown back to computer time when you Save-As / Export-As the files even if you have not edited then. That is the same as creating a new file. Maybe it is because I have been overwriting?
A little animation of that https://i.imgur.com/fTJ5r95.mp4 Four files, just opened and the Exported-As with the same name. Modified is back to computer time. I'll check it out after
Just a guess, but if you transferred the files from cloud storage, which is probably on a linux server, the file timestamps could be non-compatible with Windows file system. Who knows. All of them?
Thank you for all your time here in trying to tell me what the problem is
By the way I just made 60 new files in gimp and exported them each with a different name. No modified time
