Google Docs Loses All Content When Scanning Large PDFs After Recent Update
A user who has scanned large multi-page PDFs into Google Docs for years reports the app now crashes and discards all captured data partway through, a regression that started after a recent update. The data loss wipes out the entire scanning session with no partial recovery, forcing the work to be redone from scratch.
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