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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
Chris_J
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Super User alumniHello 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
One caveat: carefully check the preferences in your application. I don't know why, but my version of Word for Mac v. 16.37 will autosave ONLY to something called "Onedrive," I haven't had the problem before, but after a couple of hours of work earlier today, Word threw away my edited file. I tried to find prior versions in Dropbox to fall back to. No luck. Only the file I saved prior to the edits was there. It doesn't appear that Word will easily set "auto-save" and "recover" files to Dropbox. I am going to have to find a work-around before I invest too much more time editing. I switched to Mac in order to have as little as possible to do with Microsoft. Looks like the Borg is going to assimilate me after all.
