Import Notes from Backup doesn't preserve the creation date

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On Mac, when importing individual .textbundle notes from an extracted backup (.bear2bk → .zip) , those notes have the creation date of when the .zip file was extracted, rather than the note’s original creation date as recorded in the info.json inside the .textbundle

This happens in both cases when I select or deselect the “Keep original creation and modification date” option when importing

Is that expected?

If so, what, if any, way is there to recover / import individual notes from a backup while preserving the creation date?

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The metadata contained in the backup textbundles are used only when the backup is imported and ignored by any other importer. The “Keep original creation…” mirrors the file dates into the DB but uncompressing the backup produces files with updated dates.

A solution I can think of is using some kind of script reading the date in info.json and changing the bundle dates on the file system accordingly, so the imported file will have the correct dates.