https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374476
Bug ID: 374476 Summary: Exporting to Google Photos changes File modified timestamp Product: digikam Version: 5.3.0 Platform: Mint (Ubuntu based) OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: NOR Component: Export Assignee: digikam-de...@kde.org Reporter: roger.f...@gmail.com Target Milestone: --- BACKGROUND Uploading lots of stuff to Google Photos. Because of how Google sorts photo albums, if an album contains a photo with a recently modified file timestamp it will show up first in the list of albums. I therefore am careful about ensuring all photos in a digikam album have EXIF original, create and file timestamps set to that of the original photo. This ensures that the date ranges of albums are correct, which ensures that my albums are sorted correctly. PROBLEM Once I have updated all the time stamps in a digikam album, I export it to Google Photos. Only, Digikam seems to update the file modified timestamp in the export process. This means all my photos end up with file modified timestamps set to the time of the upload. The export doesn't modify my photos (?), so why does it modify the timestamps? INFO Currently on Linux Mint 18.1 with Digikam running on Cinnamon desktop. Not all digikams GUI buttons display correctly but functionally seem to work. My photos and digikam files are stored on a btrfs volume, mounted with relatime option. Mentioning this but it should not be relevant, my bug report is really that the Export process shouldn't update the file modified timestamp of photos. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.