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On recent Android versions, moving a folder within the internal storage changes its last modified time (mtime) to now.

The purpose of mtime is to indicate when the contents of a file or folder have been modified. If it is moved itself, only the change time (ctime) is supposed to change. How could Google miss this? This has been the Linux behaviour for decades.

Google simply couldn't miss this opportunity to mess up stuff.

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  • 1
    possible that they didnt "move" the folder, but created a new folder, cp-ed the file contents, then deleted the source folder? Thats my go-to script behaviour on the server so not that uncommon
  • 0
    @azuredivay that does sound like something google would do, especially with their new permissions system
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