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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

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Post by yencabulator »

fps_doug wrote: post #366
danielheath wrote: post #214

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

Physical photographic album here.

Some years back, I tried to take photos out of a random family album to scan them. The album was built so there was a plastic sheet in front of the photos, to hold them in place / protect them. Well, that sheet ended up ripping bits out of the photos, and it's glossy enough that I can't scan the photos through it. Be careful with assumptions of how long physical products last.

Also, books used to be printed on better paper; modern cheap books will not last as long as the old ones did. I have a couple of collector's edition books printed on acid-free paper...

Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account

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Post by bg24 »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #170
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/

Wow, 4.3 petabytes a day . Operating at Google's scale these days is just nuts.

Is there any tutorial type doc on how businesses use the years old data? I understand the use or hot data, need for reports, queries, etc.

Looking to beef up my knowledge.

Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account

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Post by usr1106 »

usr1106 wrote: post #399
ehsankia wrote: post #375

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Well, it's 15GB shared with Photos and Drive, so if you do use those other products, then yes you do have less space total.

I checked. It's really 15 GB of textual emails, from 2012 until December 2018 when it hit the limit. Admittedly I don't know many cases with such a traffic.

So I cleaned up that 15 GB mailbox a bit. I had previously deleted all messages over 500KB in size. Still several millions of messages left (all from 2014 to 2018.) Don't even know how to count them, because Gmail counts only conversations. Maybe it can be done via IMAP or the API, but I'd expect hitting limits on the way, so I did not spend any time trying.

The irony is that Gmail cannot delete more than a couple of thousand messages from Trash/The Bin in one go. It says "All messages deleted", but when you refresh you see that it's not true. You need iterations. I guess they are using something what AWS calls a lambda to empty the bin (don't recall the Google term) and that job hits a limit.

Yeah, I don't use that mailbox for anything serious at the moment. Just an experiment...

Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account

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Post by roryokane »

jsnell wrote: post #81

Dupe from a month ago, with multiple 300+ comment threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25060973 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25081350 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25060882

Those stories only mention Google Photos though. For those who only use some of Google’s services, it’s much more alarming to hear that the new storage policy also applies to Gmail and Drive.

Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account

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Post by fps_doug »

yencabulator wrote: post #421
fps_doug wrote: post #366

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Physical photographic album here.

Some years back, I tried to take photos out of a random family album to scan them. The album was built so there was a plastic sheet in front of the photos, to hold them in place / protect them. Well, that sheet ended up ripping bits out of the photos, and it's glossy enough that I can't scan the photos through it. Be careful with assumptions of how long physical products last. Also, books used to be printed on better…

:-) It's not like I'm using an old analog camera, or delete the files after printing.

It's just nice to a/ have an extra copy just in case and b/ it's more enjoyable/sentimental than looking at photos on a laptop, smartphone or TV.

At least my kids really enjoy it a lot. They liked to look at the albums my mom made from my pictures when they were between 2 and 5, still do today, even though they perfectly know how to navigate to all the photos on a tablet. That's when I decided to do it.

Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account

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Post by _hyn3 »

rasz wrote: post #410
_hyn3 wrote: post #407

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Sadly, Vivaldi was sold a few years ago and no longer seems the ideal choice if you're focused on privacy and security. https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/iq33nv/brave... When it was launched a year or two ago, Brave didn't integrate with the Chrome extension web store, but now it does (just like Vivaldi). Of course, also like Vivaldi, you may not need another adblocker since Brave has "shields" which ar…

You have mistaken Vivaldi for Opera. Opera was sold to Chinese investment fund, they are scamming short term loans in Africa now. Vivaldi was created by old Opera exec with same goals as old Opera. Their problem is not being scammy, neither is privacy. Their biggest problems are code quality - UI in javascript is sloow, closing tabs or fullscreening youtube video takes one full second. Then there is culture of secrec…

Ok, that's fair, thanks for pointing it out, but I thought also that Vivaldi also had part Chinese ownership.

There's also this: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-open-source/

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