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Hi there. I'd been working on an Excel doc on desktop Dropbox and accidentally closed the program without saving. Now I've lost 4 hours of progress and can only restore to the version I last saved at 2pm yesterday. Isn't Dropbox supposed to autosave versions every few minutes? Please send help asap! Thank you!
I have already corresponded with someone from Dropbox, and they were not able to offer an explanation. But you are welcome to try again, Jane. I'd love to figure this out.
Hi guys,
I found my file. Here's how I figured it out:
The file I worked on was opened in a dropbox folder on my laptop.
The "save" icon in Word actually saved the changes to "One Drive" instead of the dropbox file.
So when I opened the file in dropbox, no edits were shown.
When I use the "open" function in Word to look for recent files, it shows the saved file in "One drive". From there I was able to retrieve the file I want with my edits made today.
Basically "One Dive" is stealing control over dropbox files (and from my friend's experience even files locally saved in other destinations)
I hope this info helps you and your tech department.
Best,
Lisa
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