Google Drive users say Google lost their files; Google is investigating

“Lost” is such a strong word. They prefer “permanently misplaced”.

This is why you don't use Google Drive or Google Docs or any of that other bullshit.

I love seeing worldbuilders who store their thousands of hours of work in Google Docs. All it takes is for some employee to ban your account for some reason and then everything is gone.

Any time I get a roommate who buys a Chromebook, I tell them to return that shit.

dude i lost my 1.5tb of pornhub collection... i regret not doing nas :(

This is why you need backups.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Those instructions sound like they are aimed at preserving whatever possible file cache would exist on your computer.

The description of this being a "sync" issue doesn't really make a ton of sense, since no matter what, the Drive web interface should show all your files and let you download them.

One is the traditional "mirroring" mode that works like Dropbox, where files on your hard drive get uploaded to the cloud, downloaded to all your other devices, and stay on your computer.

You're expected to have an always-on Internet connection and, when you try to open a cloud file link, the actual data is quickly streamed to your device so applications can access it.

Besides whatever this issue ends up being, Google has also tried to cut Drive costs this year by rolling out a hard cap on file count (in addition to the usual byte size limit), which was later reversed after it got press coverage.

Google enacted this file limit as a total surprise and didn't talk about it for months, which left some businesses with broken setups scrambling to try to figure out what was happening.

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I hate Google but realistically, the chance of Google losing data is definitely higher than the chance of me losing data in my NAS. That is if either one is the sole copy of said data. Again, realistically, Google Drive, for most people, is the storage. People trust (and for good reason) that Google will take care about backup (all the client-side problems that might arise being out of bound for most people's comprehension). I don't blame users using GD as a sole storage in that regard. Sure, they could've done better, but if they're paying for it(and even if they're not), it should be expected that the data is available without no (significant) downtime.

I use Nextcloud btw.

I don't know wtf is goin on at Google for the past few years, but their software is glitchy as fuck. Google home speakers keep transcribing our broadcasts and smart devices are disappearing that are still in Smarttings.

ITT: Nerds who think they can reliably beat Google's SLA.

I lost all the captions on my photos on my pixel a couple months ago. It doesn't make sense that those would be stored in the cloud as I didn't have syncing on, but they're gone now. 🤷‍♂️

You've been shadow banned against your own data

Great I.better check my account.

I started to backup my photos to immich about a month ago, nice timing.

Yeah, stuff like this is glad I didn’t immediately start putting everything on Drive like they want us to at my job now. I do everything on my iPad and computer, then upload a copy to Drive. Having to work with Classroom daily has made me lose all trust in Google stuff, I swear.

Use mega