I may be misremembering but I actually remember GDocs telling me to reload once, so presumably they have some way of forcing reloading if they need it (I think

I may be misremembering but I actually remember GDocs telling me to reload once, so presumably they have some way of forcing reloading if they need it (I think it let me keep working locally until I reloaded, then all my stuff would be saved and synced like normal).