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Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account

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Post by Cactus2018 »

PlugTunin wrote: post #136
ComputerGuru wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I lost my free Hotmail account of almost a decade when the limit was 30 days.

Yeah, that 30-day window was ridiculous. I lost my hotmail in 2006 after exclusively using gmail for 6 weeks. I'd like to know the origins of the policy. Who decided that if someone goes a few weeks without checking their email that they're either dead or no longer interested in using the internet?

Found this source from Nov 1, 2001 https://www.neowin.net/news/infrequent-hotmail-users-face-ou...

Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account

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geek_at wrote: post #130
dataflow wrote: post #4

> "If you're over your storage limit for two years, Google may delete your content across Gmail, Drive and Photos," the company said. That's different from just deleting all your data because you're inactive. Which is it? Edit: it seems both. Here's the blog post (maybe this is a better link): https://blog.google/products/photos/storage-policy-update/

oh damn. I've created an account for my newborn son on my (free) google workspace domain and send him emails every few weeks with updates and photos. He'll receive the account when he's like 12. Will these be deleted too?

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Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account

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Post by danielheath »

EvanAnderson wrote: post #180
geek_at wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

oh damn. I've created an account for my newborn son on my (free) google workspace domain and send him emails every few weeks with updates and photos. He'll receive the account when he's like 12. Will these be deleted too?

That's a neat idea, but I'd be really, really distrustful of putting an effort of genuine feelings into a platform hosted by somebody else. That's a long time for Google not to screw it up, and it'll be sad when they do screw it up.

Yeah. I run a private wordpress instance on my NAS for this purpose.

Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account

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Post by makomk »

laumars wrote: post #110

I’m often the first to criticise Google but what they’re doing here isn’t exactly unprecedented. Free online mail providers have been removing inactive users since the 90s. Cloud storage providers remove inactive free users. A lot of companies even have a far more aggressive time line (pretty sure 90s Yahoo Mail was in the region of months rather than years) so 2 years seems pretty generous to me. At the end of the d…

Part of the reason everyone switched to GMail is because, unlike the other free online mail providers, they didn't do this kind of bullshit.

Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account

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Post by jacobmarble »

> Over the past decade, Gmail, Google Drive and Google Photos have helped billions of people securely store...

This writing style is hard to read any more. My eyes skip over whole paragraphs to get to the one or two sentences that really matter, then my fingers hit cmd-W out of habit.

Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account

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Post by GordonS »

javagram wrote: post #52

Set a reminder every 3 or 6 months to use Google Takeout. Download a full copy of your data to a hard drive in your local possession. If you’re really paranoid, download a 2nd copy and put it on a hard drive that you then leave unplugged from all computers and the internet until the next time. Simple solution for anyone with broadband, and then if you ever lost your cloud data due to subscription lapsing or inactivit…

Google Takeout doesn't seem to work for me. Any time I setup an export, they appear to be scheduled, but never run. If I go to takeout.google.com now, I see:

"Export 1 of 1 will start on 18 November 2020"

Any idea what I'm supposed to do about that?

Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account

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Post by gavin_gee »

With the recent MS to Google hires, I would expect a lot of Microsoft like price squeezing to start happening on google services as they bring cost out of the business. The photo storage changes bring familiarity to the unlimited storage option ending on Onedrive

Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account

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Post by arkitaip »

godshatter wrote: post #179

Well, I guess this is the kick in the arse I need to finish changing email addresses from gmail to my "new" email address in the approximately 9 billion websites where it exists.

Good luck. I did this earlier this year and it really helped to use saved passwords in Chrome to figure out which accounts are the most important ones.

Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account

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Post by runlevel1 »

geek_at wrote: post #130
dataflow wrote: post #4

> "If you're over your storage limit for two years, Google may delete your content across Gmail, Drive and Photos," the company said. That's different from just deleting all your data because you're inactive. Which is it? Edit: it seems both. Here's the blog post (maybe this is a better link): https://blog.google/products/photos/storage-policy-update/

oh damn. I've created an account for my newborn son on my (free) google workspace domain and send him emails every few weeks with updates and photos. He'll receive the account when he's like 12. Will these be deleted too?

A policy change that sabotages an idea that Google itself gave many people just a few years ago.

Google's "Dear Sophie" ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhPklt9nYas

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