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		cldr on Oct 25, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I lost years’ worth of Google Docs files because o... If they opened it in notepad they'd see a one-line URL, which is pretty obviously not the 5-page paper they typed. But I suppose many people wouldn't ever open it in anything other than the Drive interface, and I continue to agree it's not obvious enough for certain types of people.

ceejayoz on Oct 25, 2013 [–]

A non-technical user would not think to open it in Notepad, and would likely assume the data is hidden from view but still there.

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