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Hello,
I recently uploaded 45,000 of our family photos to OneDrive, the dates ranging from 1999 to 2018. They had been previously separated in folders by year and month, so decided it was time to back them up in the cloud and take advantage of Microsoft's photo features through OneDrive. After uploading all of my photos, I was shocked to see that many of my photos were reorganized. Randomly, photos from 2002, 2005, 2009, 2014, and 2016 were shown as brand new photos with a current date stamp. I found that there were literally hundreds of photos that were RE-DATED to the the date that I uploaded the photos. Somehow, OneDrive physically changed the metadata on the Date Modified and Date Taken to reflect the date that I uploaded the photos, not the date that they were originally taken. Even worse, the uploaded picture permanently changed the date on my local pictures, so now these photos are irreversibly corrupted and I cannot organize them by date anymore.
Microsoft, this is a massively humongous bug in the OneDrive system that I found, by searching, has been questioned several times before. Whenever I look at those posts, the commenting has been locked so that nobody can comment anymore. Not sure why Microsoft wants this issue hushed by the community, but this problem will not just go away. It needs to be fixed as soon as possible!! We have thousands of photos that are unknowingly being corrupted, most people probably just haven't figured it out yet.
One potential solution to this problem would be to turn off whatever mechanism is redating photos/videos, or changing metadata. If anyone else is having this issue, please comment below. Microsoft, is there anything being done to fix this bug???
Thank you, and I respectfully appreciate your attention to this matter. OneDrive is a great service and I really hope to continue using it. This is just too big not to make top priority in resolving.
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Absolutely! Created dates, modified dates and "taken" dates should never change when a file is moved, copied, uploaded or downloaded. Now: has anyone gotten any kind of reply from OneDrive? Or is this just what I will call a "****" venue? Sorry
I am making the point that the same problems occur for non image files regardless of the date taken metafile content. When dealing with CAD and Word processing files the OS and ONNDRIVE still also screws with their dates created and modified dates etc.
You should be able to copy files and keep them in their original identical state without any change.
The problem extends far beyond photo collections.
I need to deal with CAD files, word processing files PDF files etc all of which have no use for date taken meta data. I have attempted ( am attempting ) to use ONE DRIVE as a remote physical logical drive without any syncronization and create version folder names such as CAD 03-17-20 to copy (not move) cad files to using Windows Explorer.
I sometimes have the need when merging folders of word processing files by copying a folder into another folder where I want to overwrite only older files. ( I use Teracopy Pro ) I cannot afford for the operating system to be changing date created info.
For everyone contributing here, do not assume that only PHOTO files are being used.
@GregoryPerkins1, "Created" value is set when a file is added to a volume, regardless of the age of the file. The operating system absolutely will change the Created field. That is not a reliable field for knowing anything about the file. For that, you need to use the Modified date (which is part of the file) or use one of the other fields, which vary by file type.
But also note that your post is actually a different question. You said "do not assume that only PHOTO files are being used," but the question here was about photos. The answers differ depending on the file type. For photos, and only for photos, there is a Date Taken field. Your CAD and other documents won't have that option.
The problem extends far beyond photo collections.
I need to deal with CAD files, word processing files PDF files etc all of which have no use for date taken meta data. I have attempted ( am attempting ) to use ONE DRIVE as a remote physical logical drive without any syncronization and create version folder names such as CAD 03-17-20 to copy (not move) cad files to using Windows Explorer.
I sometimes have the need when merging folders of word processing files by copying a folder into another folder where I want to overwrite only older files. ( I use Teracopy Pro ) I cannot afford for
the operating system to be changing date created info.
For everyone contributing here, do not assume that only PHOTO files are being used.
Unbelievable that a company as big as Microsoft cannot arrange photos by date taken! Google photos can!
