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Guess at root cause: Some replication process at Google had fallen behind by 6 months (and presumably didn't have monitoring/alerting), and someone noticed and in trying to fix it they forced that replica to take mastership (meaning the users now see the 6 month old data). Since the replicas presumably now have conflicting changes, re-merging the two is going to require a lot of code be written to smartly merge the d…
Not your drive, not your data.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Almost every program you run can delete your data. Does that make it not your data?
Quick rule of thumb --- it's not really your data if the only backup is someone else's hands.
Scenario A: I take a photo. There is no backup. Is this my data?
Scenario B: I have multiple independent backups of a document. Google deletes the main copy off my computer against my will. Is that "not my data" because Google deleted it? Does the deletion not count because I have a backup? Third option?
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Guess at root cause: Some replication process at Google had fallen behind by 6 months (and presumably didn't have monitoring/alerting), and someone noticed and in trying to fix it they forced that replica to take mastership (meaning the users now see the 6 month old data). Since the replicas presumably now have conflicting changes, re-merging the two is going to require a lot of code be written to smartly merge the d…
That seems like one of the more unlikely causes, among the almost infinite variety of causes that are consistent with "several people said they can't find some files". To me the most likely one by far is the deletion was actually commanded, for example by a flaw in the program they use to sync, or by malware.
Low frequency data loss until it reaches alerting threshold of 0.1%
This is likely very paranoid behaviour but I recommend downloading all your Google data from time to time: takeout.google.com
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…
"but it will surprise no one to learn I never heard anything back" (surprisingly?) ... I have colleagues that, even in 2023 , will express genuine (not sarcastic shock) when a megacorp doesn't reply or provide decent support. I've only got a few, but the refrain will be something like "wow, I'm kinda surprised google's cloud support doesn't get back to us - sometimes for days. they've always had such a good reputatio…
I've been convinced for years that Google Docs loses things. I both had files vanish and have lost edits - one time I could demonstrate it with a screenshot of part of a doc that later reverted to an earlier version. 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 m…
This is likely very paranoid behaviour but I recommend downloading all your Google data from time to time: takeout.google.com
This works fine for smaller accounts, but on larger accounts it seems to be regularly failing (based on my own experience and based on other postings and reports that I found online). Exporting my Google Photos sometimes fails consistently even with lots of attempts. Out of well over 10 export attempts or so this year maybe a single one succeeded. I have a few hundred GB of data stored on that account. I also current…
How do you do the diff between the old and new encrypted versions? Do you encrypt and upload the takeout .tar.gz files, or do extract first then encrypt?