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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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mono_o
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

My solution is to download the file as a Microsoft document (Docs, Sheets, Slides). Delete the original file in Dropbox and upload the local version. The error goes away as this is a brand new file as far as Dropbox is concerned.

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