Google Drive just accidentally deleted years of data
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Re: Google Drive just accidentally deleted years of data
#2Does anyone have any technical insights as to what happened here? Was it related to Google's new account deletion policy or something totally separate?
Re: Google Drive just accidentally deleted years of data
#3The actual headline is:
> Google Drive deleted six months worth of files. Here’s what happened and the fixes.
Re: Google Drive just accidentally deleted years of data
#4Does anyone have any technical insights as to what happened here? Was it related to Google's new account deletion policy or something totally separate?
You'll never get an answer to this because answer == admission.
If you want a guess, it probably was related to pruning old accounts/old files.
Re: Google Drive just accidentally deleted years of data
#5The actual headline is: > Google Drive deleted six months worth of files. Here’s what happened and the fixes.
If you read in the links, users are reporting more than six months. It sounds like entire accounts have been wiped.
I think the "six months" is coming from the original report but looks like it could be longer.
Re: Google Drive just accidentally deleted years of data
#6Does anyone have any technical insights as to what happened here? Was it related to Google's new account deletion policy or something totally separate?
You'll never get an answer to this because answer == admission. If you want a guess, it probably was related to pruning old accounts/old files.
Yeah, the timing is suspicious. Wonder if someone just fat-fingered a command.
Re: Google Drive just accidentally deleted years of data
#7The actual headline is: > Google Drive deleted six months worth of files. Here’s what happened and the fixes.
If you read in the links, users are reporting more than six months. It sounds like entire accounts have been wiped. I think the "six months" is coming from the original report but looks like it could be longer.
The links you posted say it was local files that had not been synced to Google Drive, so it's however long people were creating files that weren't synced to the cloud without the user noticing.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you read in the links, users are reporting more than six months. It sounds like entire accounts have been wiped. I think the "six months" is coming from the original report but looks like it could be longer.
The links you posted say it was local files that had not been synced to Google Drive, so it's however long people were creating files that weren't synced to the cloud without the user noticing.
Some users are saying years but could it really be that long?
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/14286582?sjid=464734...
Re: Google Drive just accidentally deleted years of data
#9Re: Google Drive just accidentally deleted years of data
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
You'll never get an answer to this because answer == admission. If you want a guess, it probably was related to pruning old accounts/old files.
Yeah, the timing is suspicious. Wonder if someone just fat-fingered a command.
I wonder if there is any correlation to the files deleted and the user accounts that were pruned--basically the file was deleted because you shared it with a user account that was pruned