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This is a royal fuck up. Anyone using any g cloud service better be suspect when using their services. Amazing how some folks can't get a job at google if they can't invert a binary tree. Perhaps hire folks with relevant skills rather than folks who can solve 2 leetcode mediums in under 45 mins?
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and some users are going to permanently lose data Why couldn't you write code to let users compare and choose which version of the data they want to keep?
I guess there may be a bevy of different file formats and a diff for a spreadsheet an an image would require building tooling, just from those examples. I was thinking of creating an application where the front end is more than just a file browser to stored file types but the interface to read/edit the content as well.
Other people at work agree with me. Google support insists we're nuts.
I only use it when other internal folks start collaborative docs, otherwise I do not trust it. Files don't randomly disappear from my local filesystem (and we test our backups).
I experienced different and in some ways more pernicious data loss with Google Drive several years ago: I was writing a novel, and Drive simply erased random paragraphs of text. Just poof, gone. I could find neither rhyme nor reason for it, either. Some had been edited in after the fact, while others were present in the original draft. All told, it equated to around 8K words over the course of the novel. Granted, you…
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Someone can also rob your house if you own it. Now you may have some legal recourse, but...
The "legal recourse" is what defines "ownership". If someone can take or destroy your stuff *without* legal recourse, then you don't really "own" it'
You have even less recourse against the average burglar than the average landlord.
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But saying that "because they can, they can" is silly. They can because user's agreed to their terms of service --- and by so doing so, relinquished some of their ownership rights.
Did you read them, because it very clearly states in the drive addendum that users DO NOT give up any ownership rights.
The total liability of Google, and its suppliers and distributors, for any
claims under these terms, including for any implied warranties, is limited to
the amount you paid us to use the services (or, if the subject of the claim
is the free service, to supplying you the services again).
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> Google Drive allows you to upload, submit, store, send and receive content. As described in the Google Terms of Service, your content remains yours. We do not claim ownership in any of your content, including any text, data, information, and files that you upload, share, or store in your Drive account. The Google Terms of Service give Google a limited purpose license to operate and improve the Google Drive services…
If Google can delete it, it's not really *your* data is it? https://blog.google/products/photos/storage-policy-update/
I experienced different and in some ways more pernicious data loss with Google Drive several years ago: I was writing a novel, and Drive simply erased random paragraphs of text. Just poof, gone. I could find neither rhyme nor reason for it, either. Some had been edited in after the fact, while others were present in the original draft. All told, it equated to around 8K words over the course of the novel. Granted, you…
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I wish I could go back to google drive even with the file loss issues. OneDrive appears to be a sort of different view into Sharepoint's file management system, and boy is it painful to use.
God, why are the choices so bad. I wouldn't trust Google with anything important these days. But Teams/SharePoint/OneDrive is so bad. I don't think that selfhosting is a great option for corporate, but Microsoft and Google are just shit.