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When I 'Move' pictures from my camera or phone into Ubuntu using 'Files V3.10.1', the timestamp in the 'Modified' column changes to the day I move the files. Obviously I did not 'modify' the file, I just moved it onto my computer, so if I import a picture i took a month ago it will sit in line with pictures I took today.

  1. Is there a way to stop this and keep the timestamp of when the picture was taken?
  2. Is there a way to show the 'Created' column in "Files 3.10.1" ?
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  • And for the other question: ext4 for example stores the creation time of files / folders, but there's no implemented function in the kernel to access them (nor a function implemented in Files that I know of; maybe one can be crafted by modifying and recompiling Files, but that's obviously not a trivial task). So the problem with the creation time is at the roots. There are tools capable of extracting the creation time of inodes, but their implementation is limited to the command line AFAIK. – kos Jan 04 '16 at 13:42

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