diff --git a/online/src/app/classic/menus/filemenu.jsx b/online/src/app/classic/menus/filemenu.jsx
index 8d41d119a..3251d06cb 100644
--- a/online/src/app/classic/menus/filemenu.jsx
+++ b/online/src/app/classic/menus/filemenu.jsx
@@ -97,7 +97,34 @@ export const FileMenu = () =>
       linkType: 'direct',
       extensions: ['.vzome'],
       success: (files) => {
-        fetchDesignUrl( files[0].link, { preview: false, debug: false } );
+        const url = files[ 0 ] .link .toLowerCase();
+        setState( 'ignoreDesignName', true );  // transient, means we'll still have an untitled design after the fetch
+        fetchDesignUrl( url, { preview: false, debug: false } );
+
+        const name = files[ 0 ] .name;
+        if ( name && name .toLowerCase() .endsWith( '.vzome' ) ) {
+          setState( 'designName', name .substring( 0, name.length - 6 ) );
+          setState( 'sharing', 'title', name .replaceAll( '-', ' ' ) );
+        }
+
+        /*
+          My personal Dropbox holds 100s of vZome files back to 2003.  When I share them,
+          I want to capture the original date, which is encoded in the file path (usually):
+          .../vzome/attachments/2016/04-apr/10-Scott-deleteTest/testDeleteAndCut.vZome
+        */
+        const ATTACHMENTS = 'vzome/attachments/';
+        if ( url .includes( ATTACHMENTS ) ) {
+          const start = url .lastIndexOf( ATTACHMENTS ) + 18;
+          const relPath = url .substring( start );
+          try {
+            const [ _, year, month, day ] = relPath .match( /([0-9]+)\/([0-9]+).*\/([0-9]+).*\// );
+            const date = new Date( Number(year), Number(month)-1, Number(day) );
+            setState( 'originalDate', date );
+            console.log( 'Dropbox date:', date, 'for', year, month, day, relPath );
+          } catch (error) {
+            console.log( 'Could not parse Dropbox path as date:', relPath );
+          }
+        }
       },
     } );
   }
diff --git a/online/src/app/framework/context/editor.jsx b/online/src/app/framework/context/editor.jsx
index 3e0a7d098..6101b1533 100644
--- a/online/src/app/framework/context/editor.jsx
+++ b/online/src/app/framework/context/editor.jsx
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ const EditorProvider = props =>
 
       case 'TEXT_FETCHED': { // we receive this event twice per fetch?
         let { name } = data.payload;
-        if ( name && name .endsWith( '.vZome' ) ) {
+        if ( name && name .toLowerCase() .endsWith( '.vzome' ) ) {
           if ( !state.ignoreDesignName ) {
             name = name .substring( 0, name.length - 6 );
             setState( 'designName', name ); // cooperatively managed by both worker and client
@@ -98,7 +98,6 @@ const EditorProvider = props =>
 
       case 'CONTROLLER_CREATED':
         setState( {
-          ...initialState(),
           workerReady: true,
           controller: { __store: store, __path: [] }
         } );
@@ -195,7 +194,7 @@ const EditorProvider = props =>
   {
     const { capture } = capturer();  
     const name = state?.designName || 'untitled';
-    const config = { ...unwrap( state.sharing ), blog, publish };
+    const config = { ...unwrap( state.sharing ), blog, publish, originalDate: state.originalDate };
     return new Promise( ( resolve, reject ) =>
     {
       new Promise((resolve, _) => {
@@ -221,6 +220,7 @@ const EditorProvider = props =>
     resetScenes();
     setSceneIndex( 0 );
     setState( 'source', { type: 'file', data: file } );
+    setState( 'originalDate', null ); // NOT loaded from my Dropbox
     workerClient .postMessage( actions.openDesignFile( file, debug ) );
   }
 
@@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ const EditorProvider = props =>
     resetScenes();
     setSceneIndex( 0 );
     setState( 'source', { type: 'url', data: url } );
+    setState( 'originalDate', null ); // NOT loaded from my Dropbox
     workerClient .postMessage( actions.fetchDesign( url, config ) );
   }
   
diff --git a/online/src/worker/vzome-worker-static.js b/online/src/worker/vzome-worker-static.js
index b60abdeb4..a464997d5 100644
--- a/online/src/worker/vzome-worker-static.js
+++ b/online/src/worker/vzome-worker-static.js
@@ -258,15 +258,15 @@ const exportPreview = ( camera, lighting ) =>
 const shareToGitHub = async ( target, config, data, report ) =>
 {
   const { orgName, repoName, branchName } = target;
-  const { title, description, blog, publish, style } = config;
+  const { title, description, blog, publish, style, originalDate } = config;
   const { name, camera, lighting, image } = data;
   const preview = exportPreview( camera, lighting );
   importLegacy()
     .then( module => {
       const xml = design.wrapper .serializeVZomeXml( lighting, camera );
-      const now = new Date() .toISOString();
-      const date = now .substring( 0, 10 );
-      const time = now .substring( 11 ) .replaceAll( ':', '-' ) .replaceAll( '.', '-' );
+      const creation = ( originalDate || new Date() ) .toISOString();
+      const date = creation .substring( 0, 10 );
+      const time = creation .substring( 11 ) .replaceAll( ':', '-' ) .replaceAll( '.', '-' );
       const shareData = new module .vzomePkg.core.exporters.GitHubShare( title, date, time, xml, image, preview );
 
       const uploads = [];