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Hellow,
I am interested, if Google drive syncronization can replace container modification dates for older ones and change Veracrypt preferences. I want to know, if I shall to delete files in Google cloud, then change dates and sync? My situation is the following. There are old modification date, after Google drive compared files in storage and on the desktop. The containers were not syncronized. I work with containers and their files on the PC. The containers of the folder are usually synced with Onedrive. But I turned it off and exited to sync with Google service. The modification dates were changed only for containers. Other files were worked over normally. So containers in Google cloud are old. The content of the PC containers is fresh. and actual. I checked modification dates in Onedrive site. They are actual also. Today, I looked Veracrypt options and seen....."surprise". The option "Preserve modification timestamp of the file containers " was off. The containers were created a long time ago. May be even in 2010, I did not change options of the software these week. If you can please, write me also, how to check, if the Veracrypt settings were changed and when without restoring the whole system backup. I can restore from 2 or 3 days backup.
Last edit: alexander 2020-05-18
Hello Alexander,
I guess you are mixing directories with the Veracrypt containers. And to me it is absolutely not clear, if You are trying to sync the whole encrypted containers or the unencrypted content of the containers. In fact it is only possible to sync complete containers, if the time stamp preservation is off, but that does not make any sense for many reasons. So only sync the unencrypted container content (file and directories). In this case the preservation switch has not got any influence on that operation.
I am synking closed containers. Their folder is subfolder of Onedrive.
As I said in my first post: this is not the way it should be done. Only in case of very small containers, because you produce a huge amount of data transmission with enormous overhead. In case of faulty transmission you loose not only few data but a whole bunch (complete container content). Consider this!
Thank you. Usually I have containers, which size is 2 from 4 Gb. And backup them to flash drives. The larger containers are rare.
Last edit: alexander 2020-05-21