I think these failures of previous solutions are due to Google Docs being upgraded to/supplanted by Google Drive. Google Drive apparently has a built-in desktop sync feature, making exporting unnecessary. (Disclaimer: I haven’t tried this yet myself.)
There is a company called Backupify which offers a tool that integrates with Google Drive to do an additional backup (rather than just syncing), but their app is listed with a cost of $3/month.
I also tried the desktop sync feature, but it doesn’t actually store local copies of the files in an accessible format. It just means that you can load it up in your browser in ‘offline mode’ on the particular computer on which you have the Google sync software installed.
I think these failures of previous solutions are due to Google Docs being upgraded to/supplanted by Google Drive. Google Drive apparently has a built-in desktop sync feature, making exporting unnecessary. (Disclaimer: I haven’t tried this yet myself.)
There is a company called Backupify which offers a tool that integrates with Google Drive to do an additional backup (rather than just syncing), but their app is listed with a cost of $3/month.
Yeah.
I also tried the desktop sync feature, but it doesn’t actually store local copies of the files in an accessible format. It just means that you can load it up in your browser in ‘offline mode’ on the particular computer on which you have the Google sync software installed.
Backupify seems like it should work.
Correction: Backupify only works if you use Google Apps. It doesn’t work for personal Gmail accounts.