Google Drive/Docs Cross-Device Edit Sync and Large-File Backup Failures
A user reports that edits made to a document on a laptop do not reliably appear when opening the same file on a phone via Google Drive, and separately that Google's backup tooling silently failed to back up a 9GB WhatsApp archive before a phone migration. Together these point to reliability gaps in Google's cross-device sync and large-file backup handling.
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