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Keep modification date of original file
The enhancement would be to keep the modification date (and maybe other dates as well like "created" and "last opened") of the original file.
Two challenges:
- Depending on the source, it's probably not possible to retrieve the original dates.
- It has to be implemented for each cloud storage service, not certain about the complexity yet.
I'm not sure yet, it has been a feature request by a user. It's quite similar to this feature request for the desktop application: https://github.com/cryptomator/cryptomator/issues/220
I think it's just that some people like their metadata? I'm actually not sure about this issue either, so it's open for discussion. :smile:
I think that it makes totally sense to let the original dates after the encryption. I have the same problem with a ton of files that I have uploaded and now I am not able to recognise the newer files from the older ones anymore. All the files have the same date, the one when they have been copied. That is actually a big problem.
As mentioned by @tobihagemann this might be a cloud-dependent feature. Not sure, if all storage backends support storing/modifying file metadata. But a "best effort" solution should be feasible. For the clouds, that don't allow changing creation/modification date just no-op silently.
The cloud system I am using is Google Drive and when I copy a file directly into a Google Drive folder, the modified date is kept after the upload. I also tried with Mega in combination with Cryptomator and I have the same problem, all dates are modified to the date & time of copy.
Are we still talking about the iOS app? I'll look into this, but could you please describe the use case for me? From which app did you copy a file into the Google Drive app, where the modified date is kept? So that I can use this as a reference for the Cryptomator app.
No I am using Cryptomator on Mac OS (El Capitan) with Google Drive. When I copy a file with the Finder from the HD to the Cryptomator encrypted vault, all the dates are reset to the current day. When I copy a file from the HD to a Google Drive folder (which is a local folder on the HD too), the original dates are kept. Therefore, the dates seem to reset only when the file is copied to a Cryptomator vault, no matter what the cloud system is.
Then this is the wrong issue, we're only talking about the iOS app here. Please refer to https://github.com/cryptomator/cryptomator/issues/220, thanks! :)
