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Dutch_Orange
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Version of file just aged like 2 weeks instantly.

I have a file I work on every day and often save it multiple times a day. I had it on my laptop this morning, saved and closed it, so I could work on my desktop at home with it. And all of a sudden t...
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Dutch_Orange
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Last reference to file is 16 days ago. Other events have happened since then according to the system. I saved the file and another on my laptop at around 4 pm EST. The  other file is still there but the current version of one that 'aged' is gone. No reference in Events after March 20th. And I save it multiple times per day on most working days. The only thing I can think of is that I may have saved it as *v12 instead of *v11 on March 20th and that *v12 just completely disappeared. If that were the case *v12 deletion should have created an Event, not?

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Mark
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2 years ago

Are you saving as different names? i.e. v11, v12 etc.?

 

If you didnt save as v12 there wont be a deletion event for that - it would just show v11. Have you looked at version history of v11?

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    Dutch_Orange
    Explorer | Level 3
    2 years ago

    v11 history stops on March 21st. That's why I think I might have switched to v12, that would at least explain that. Another thing occurred to me, if I just save the file locally on my laptop but never close it on my laptop, does it even sync with Dropbox? If not, that would explain why there is no history of v12. Only thing that still remains inexplicable, what happened to v12 when I saved it on my laptop, closed the file and it disappeared... 

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