OneDrive changing the dates on my photos?!?!?

Chad (live.com#cholmes) - thank you for raising this issue! I just downloaded 250+ photos from my OneDrive account, planning to organize by month on my local drive, and had all the dates created reset to the transfer date.

I stumbled upon this thread trying to fix the dates back. I learned the hard way that when copying files, Windows (as other operation systems do as well) modifies the original "creation date" to the date of copying. For example, see more at https://www.infonautics.ch/blog/how-to-correct-wrong-file-dates/ .

If you haven't a solution yet, I found a quick workaround. If on Windows 10, go to the View tab in your file window for the photos you want to reset back. Then choose "sort by", select "additional columns", and next select "Date taken". This will at least allow you to see and sort the photos by the original date taken back to their proper folder locations.

We have the same problem with google drive.  I want to transfer all my files from google drive to some other remote storage.  I have a few things on Onedrive andI would like to use it for everything but won't until they fix this.  Any suggestions of another provider?

@LonnaSpeer, I don't believe there is a problem with OneDrive, just uncertainty by some over how Windows handles the different date fields.

I hate to be contrary but I have some surprising observations.   I have a Onedrive account with 1 terabyte and on my Win10 desktop I have five logical drives on two physical hard drives.

In my Onedrive account I have it turned off.  That is in other words there is ZERO automatic

copying or backing up of my drive contents.   Zero synchronizing of files etc.   I use Onedrive purely

as a remote logical drive  which is used manually..... that is to say I use Windows Explorer and

Teracopy Pro File manager to create my idea of version control.   I create folders on OneDrive

such as "CAD 01-24-20 backup"  and "CAD 03-13-20 backup"    and "DOCS 01-04-19 backup"

and "Jobsite images 05-12-19" etc.   I then manually drag and drop all of the files in the relevant directory on my desktop into the OneDrive backup folder.  I copy from C:  F: G: H: I:  logical drives

on my desktop.

I cannot explain it but my Date Created  field info does not and HAS NOT changed in two years

of this activity.

I am here for another problem dealing with Onedrive and found this thread which I thought might be helpful .......  and I never thought about changing creation dates before but I went back and looked and I do NOT experience the date created field being altered when copying files.     For others affected here, 

My suggestion might be that the synchronizing function is causing the problems.  Turn it all off and try the copys/moves manually.   Teracopy File Manager is superior to File Explorer as it provides many options when merging folders etc such as skip files with same size and date,  or overwrite only older files,  or keep both copies when over writing a file by amending a "(2)" character string to the older file name etc

MY problem..... is that some JPG images appear to exist on Onedrive with file size and date created info etc  but when I try to view the image or download (copy manually),  I get an error message saying "Cloud server is not running"

We have the same problem with google drive.  I want to transfer all my files from google drive to some other remote storage.  I have a few things on Onedrive andI would like to use it for everything but won't until they fix this.  Any suggestions of another provider?

They do not seem to care, this has been going on for as long as I have this laptop, like 5 years or more.