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An update to storage policies across your Google Account
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Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account
#32Delete? Or just make it unavailable to you? If delete, sign me up.
I get where you're coming from, but isn't 2 years an awful long time for Google to have to use your data the way Google, and Google alone chooses, even if "delete" really means "delete"?
My statement is more about what I would _like_. Meaning, if Google is saying 'If you stop using google products, 2 years later we will full delete all of your data', I would spot using them today, right now.
If there is grey area, I probably wouldn't/don't care, because what can I really do?
Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account
#33The same happened to my old "...@hotmail.com" email, Microsoft deleted old childhood emails, still bitter about that. Per https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/oemail... , the limit is 365 days of inactivity.
M$ used to delete HoTMaiL emails after 2w inactivity in the early 2000s. Back when the limit was 20MB.
Heh I remember when they changed the 6MB limit to 2MB
Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account
#34So, is there a cloud email backup service? I had this happen to my hotmail and that sucked.
Why are you waiting until that backup service goes bankrupt? Buy a HD and backup your stuff at home.
Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account
#35From the email I got from Google a few minutes ago: > Summary of the new policies (effective June 1, 2021): > • If you're inactive for 2 years (24 months) in Gmail, Drive or Photos, we may delete the content in the product(s) in which you're inactive. Google One members who are within their storage quota and in good-standing will not be impacted by this new inactive policy. > • If you exceed your storage limit for 2…
If the users are inactive they aren't seeing ads. Google isn't a charity, why would they pay for storage that isn't being used? Also, somewhat morbidly, dead people don't really need their photos and emails hosted perpetually.
They don't, but as a society we would all benefit from some way to archive at least some of that. Future historians will curse us for not leaving behind letters, photos, etc. (which is especially ironic given how much more of them we're each generating).
Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account
#36What's another good email provider? I am starting to feel really nervous about storing my life in Google. It's not that I wouldn't pay for these things...it's just that I worry one day I'll lose access and fall into the pit of "trying to get Google to help a single human regain access" that sounds horrible.
FastMail / ProtonMail are good. But even they won't just store your mail forever for free.
Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account
#37Headline seems inaccurate/ misleading to me. Quote from Google in the article: > If you're over your storage limit for two years, Google may delete your content across Gmail, Drive and Photos Honestly that seems far more generous than I’d expect — why should Google (or any other company) be expected to store your data indefinitely if you stop paying them?
Because we got used to that. They trained us to be this way. It’s their fault. Why did they have to give us free stuff and then take it away? It’s not fair. It’s been free as air. Not free as water.
/rant.
Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account
#38What's another good email provider? I am starting to feel really nervous about storing my life in Google. It's not that I wouldn't pay for these things...it's just that I worry one day I'll lose access and fall into the pit of "trying to get Google to help a single human regain access" that sounds horrible.
FastMail / ProtonMail are good. But even they won't just store your mail forever for free.
I'd pay. But mostly, I'd pay to know the customer service would respond to me. Customer service at Google is like trying to cancel Verizon service - endless transfers.
Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account
#39so if I have registered MyChildsFullName @ gmail to prevent anyone else from taking it, I now need to make sure it gets at least one email every couple years to prevent them from deleting it before my child is old enough to use it?
Who are you trying to prevent from taking the handle? Seems like it's either a) adults - that have a legit use for it now, b) soon to be adults that will have a legit use for it sooner than your kid does.
Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account
#40Headline seems inaccurate/ misleading to me. Quote from Google in the article: > If you're over your storage limit for two years, Google may delete your content across Gmail, Drive and Photos Honestly that seems far more generous than I’d expect — why should Google (or any other company) be expected to store your data indefinitely if you stop paying them?
Because the reason I signed up for GMail in 2004 was that they promised that they keep my emails forever