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Missing folders and Paper docs after migration
For many years I have used Dropbox paper. Made hundreds of folders and papers. Now I have only 10 or so in my migrated section. First of all I had no idea something was about to happen. M...
Megan
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHey Lmstreng!
It sounds like you migrated to the updated version of Paper. Now your Paper docs are in your Dropbox folder. Paper docs and Dropbox files will be accessible in the same place alongside all your other Dropbox content.
Which platform do you use when trying to edit your Paper files and what is your OS?
Also if you use these steps, do you notice the same behavior?
- Open Dropbox Paper. If already open, go to the activity stream by clicking the back arrow in the top-left corner.
- Click your avatar (if you have not set an avatar, your initials are displayed).
- Click Download docs you created.
- Choose the filetype for your download.
- Click Download.
I didn't do anything, you all did this with no warning, emails, nothing! This is the most frustrating experience ever so now I just want to be able to export all my documents as Microsoft Word.
The steps you provided did not help. I'm not seeing any "Download docs you created" or any export/download options from Dropbox or Dropbox Paper.
This is all on Safari, Mac OS (latest version). My iPhone Paper app also shows none of my previous folders/documents unless they are starred.
I feel you...every few years someone breaks my heart like this :)
first it was evernote, not paper which served me well for many years. I have the same experience. I can't use the app any more, and it doesn't seem like a bug or something.
I didn't understand if this was intentional.
anyway, I just want to be able to export all my notes and eventually I had to write a python script to do it.
so I did, as far as I could tell I can only do it in markdown/html format which I later imported into notion.
if you want I can share it with you and if running python script is not your thing I can try to put together clear instructions to do with with cloud tools which anyway can access for free (namely google cobal)Hello, I'm also impacted by this today. I just tried to access my docs on paper, and none of them are available on the site (paper.dropbox.com) or the Android app. I'm seeing them in a Migrated Paper Docs folder in the Dropbox account. I don't want to have to open dropbox just to edit a document. How do I get my documents back in Paper.dropbox.com. I didn't initiate any migration.
Megan I can confirm that creating a new document does allow me to export as any of the 3 options available. I was able to create a new document and export as a Word Document.
I'm still not able to export any of my original Paper documents. It still just sits on the "Export - Preparing files for export... 0 of 1" window
I'm still not seeing all of my documents in the new Paper.
Sure
https://gist.github.com/roybenyosef/158c60f6c11ca09be64eeb86903c322d
I added some comments, I hope it's manageable.
