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Luc-FJ
Helpful | Level 7
4 years ago

Unsaved changes to Dropbox - Google Docs, Sheets, Slides Error

Hi there,   Like a few other people, I've also encountered a frequent problem inside of Google Docs, Sheets and Slides. At some point, ik looks like Google can't connect to Dropbox anymore to cor...
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buffywan
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago

Hi, just adding on to this post. I understand this is a known issue and doesn't seem like there is a solution as it is quite intermittent. Now whenever my team collaborates on a G Slide, I just hope that unsaved changes message doesn't show up. I initially thought it is fine since the only downside is we can't duplicate the file.

 

But I just learned something today. Over time, G slide will purge the other versions, loading only the last saved copy. So for example, my team worked on a rather large deck of slides in March this year for a presentation. Just opened that same deck today and it is the incomplete version. Fortunately I download ed PDF versions of the deck as a form of backup at certain intervals during the time we were working on it.

 

Hope this bug can be resolved someday!

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Luc-FJ
Helpful | Level 7
4 years ago

Hi buffywan ! 

 

Noticed the same in older documents of our team, also something that needs to be more clear that a slide deck can break like this if it is intended behaviour.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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