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      Google Cloud SFTP Last Modified Time Stamp on Directories/Folders

      When logging in to Learnsoft's new SFTP hosted on Google Cloud, you will notice that the last modified timestamp on Directories/Folders is being updated to the current date/time.  This is a limitation within Google Cloud.

       

      Google Cloud Services storage is an object storage system in which directories are stored as paths and not as actual items. This means there are no dates associated to the directory and that the dates you see in the SFTP on Folders are updated by the FTP app (Example: filezilla, WinSCP, etc.) when you log on or access them, not by Google.

       

      To determine the real last modified time, you will need to click into the folders until you see the actual files (not folders). 

       

       

      While we recognize the limitations, we are hopeful that Google will eventually adopt and implement something like this https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/184072815?pli=1, that we can take advantage of in the future.