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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,
The problem is that Excel automatically turns off (and greys out) the auto-save function when saving to Dropbox. So there's no way to enable auto-save when saving to Dropbox.
Is anyone at Dropbox aware of this issue and working with Microsoft to resolve?
It's possible Microsoft does this to encourage people to save to OneDrive instead of Dropbox.
I think your hypothesis is correct. Microsoft Word will also not autosave anywhere except to Onedrive or Sharepoint.
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