Exporting f3d files does not update date and time on the file

[espenrs]

For Windows 10. Exporting f3d files does not update date and time on the file unless you save as a new name.

If I have the project "Whatever" and I originally export it to "Whatever.f3d". I do some changes and now have the project "Whatever v2". If I export this to the same filname "Whatever.f3d" the date and time on that file will not update. If I however export it to the suggested filename "Whatever v2.f3d" that file will get a new date and time.

If I delete the original file "Whatever.f3d" and export to this name effectively creating a new file it still doesn't get a new date and time. I have to export to a new filename. Which is inefficient as I do not need multiple archive files and in most cases just want to overwrite the existing file.

[Phil.E]

Hi,

Sorry to hear you are having trouble with Windows. 

I tested your workflow using my own Windows 10 computer and do not see any problem. Windows will overwrite the exported file and it gets new Windows OS attributes for time/size.

It seems strange that you could save a design, say yesterday or a week ago, and then overwrite the file and Windows would not give it a new date or other information. That just doesn't sound like normal Windows OS file saving behavior. 

Please let me know if there's anything else I can help with.

[espenrs · Accepted solution]

What happened was the folder, and only this folder, where I had my Fusion 360 files, the date column was set to creation date and not updated date. Totally a Windows 10 issue, but because it was only this folder not easy to spot. And why this happened I don't know. You need specific actions to do this which I'm sertain I did not do.

[Phil.E]

Thanks for letting us know!