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ZipXtract is modifying file metadata when compressing files on phones.

Open theFreeWall opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

After compressing a folder and then decompressing the archive, the creation and modification timestamps (and other metadata) are being changed to the time the ZipXtract archive was created. This is unexpected behavior, as other compression programs, both on computers and phones, generally do not alter a file's metadata.

The timestamps within the metadata are important, especially for sorting files chronologically in file explorers.

theFreeWall avatar Mar 08 '25 18:03 theFreeWall

Is this happening only for folder or for the files also?

WirelessAlien avatar Mar 24 '25 14:03 WirelessAlien

Is this happening only for folder or for the files also?

Both

I'm sorry it took so long to reply to this issue, but I finally gave up using ZipXtract because of this problem (which made me unable to sort photos by modification time). This is a problem that is easy to reproduce, and it happens every time, If you care, you will notice it.

theFreeWall avatar May 29 '25 18:05 theFreeWall

Ok, found the issue. The issue does not exist for zip file but for 7z and a few it exists. Will be fixed

WirelessAlien avatar May 30 '25 11:05 WirelessAlien