Canva Design Restore Failure Causes Loss of Hours of Work
A user lost hours of design work after Canva's restore feature failed to recover their project. The incident reflects unreliable auto-save or version history on the platform, with high emotional intensity but narrow scope as a vendor-specific bug.
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