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Word files utterly VANISHING :-((
This has been going on for a while and is driving me more and more NUTS: Many of my Document folders are suddenly EMPTY for no reason - I've never emptied them, their contents should be there. Th...
I save them in a Dropbox folder in my computer which automatically syncs documents to my in-the-cloud Dropbox storage - so when something vanishes in my computer, it likewise vanishes in the cloud.
This is the other problem I mentioned: last night after (I thought) I saved a new document, a blank document was saved with that name, while what was supposed to be its contents were still sitting onscreen as an-inprogress untitled document. This happens randomly, so now I have to double-check after I save anything to confirm it was saved in fact, and print it out in case the document vanishes afterwards.
This is the other problem I mentioned: last night after (I thought) I saved a new document, a blank document was saved with that name, while what was supposed to be its contents were still sitting onscreen as an-inprogress untitled document. This happens randomly, so now I have to double-check after I save anything to confirm it was saved in fact, and print it out in case the document vanishes afterwards.
Sorry, I have no experience using Dropbox with Office. Maybe Dropbox support can offer some best practices when used with Microsoft Office (https://www.dropbox.com/support)?
