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How to autosave an excel file to Dropbox every 10 min
I just spent two hours on an excel file only to have excel crash before i saved it and lost my work. I am using MS Excel 97-2004 on a MacBook Pro and right now have to manually save all work. How ...
Hello slstewart249
There isn't a way for Dropbox to do this but as I understand it there is an auto-save feature in Microsoft Excel. I believe most versions have this. Take a look at this article https://support.office.com/en-us/article/use-autosave-and-autorecover-to-help-protect-your-files-in-case-of-a-crash-551c29b1-6a4b-4415-a3ff-a80415b92f99
or https://www.justanswer.com/computer/1ay5s-turn-off-autosave-feature-excel.html
Hopes this helps
And for extra measure, here's a screenshot showing the greyed out AutoSave option:
Chris_J
Super User alumni
Super User alumniHave you tried re-installing Microsoft Ecel?
- not yet. Will I lose all my settings?
- Rich
Super User II
Ok, we seem to be confusing two separate features. AutoSave (as shown in your screenshot), and the feature that automatically saves files every 10 minutes for file recovery.
The feature you're referring to does not work with local folders. It can only be enabled and used with OneDrive, OneDrive for Business or Sharepoint Online.
- Ohhhhh. Thanks. I guess that solves the mystery. I thought the feature that automatically saves files every 10 minutes was turned off. I've lost too much data in the past to leave that off :)Thanks for the help and sorry for the confusion.
