I lost years’ worth of Google Docs files because of a poor user interface
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I lost years’ worth of Google Docs files because of a poor user interface
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Re: I lost years’ worth of Google Docs files because of a poor user interface
#2Yes, if you have no backups, and never restore from your backups, and just rely on a free service keeping all your things for you for all time, things might go awry.
Re: I lost years’ worth of Google Docs files because of a poor user interface
#3If he has the local copies of his documents from the local Google Drive sync, wouldn't he at least have that backup, or are the local files not really files at all but just pointers to the cloud storage files?
If it's the latter, does that mean that's it's literally impossible to make backups of your Google Docs documents? If I were to use a another backup program to backup my Google Drive folder, it wouldn't be possible to restore those files if the Google Drive files got deleted?
Re: I lost years’ worth of Google Docs files because of a poor user interface
#4Huh? If you remove the files from the copy of Google drive on your disk, they get removed on the web. It's one "drive." That's KIND OF THE WHOLE POINT. It's not poor user design.
That they go to the trash is good user design, to prevent users from doings things like this guy did...
Re: I lost years’ worth of Google Docs files because of a poor user interface
#5I don't know of any backup service that doesn't work this way unless you explicitly tell it otherwise (e.g. a "Never Delete" option).
Re: I lost years’ worth of Google Docs files because of a poor user interface
#6File a FOIA request and get your data back from the NSA.
Is this a thing?
Re: I lost years’ worth of Google Docs files because of a poor user interface
#7Huh? If you remove the files from the copy of Google drive on your disk, they get removed on the web. It's one "drive." That's KIND OF THE WHOLE POINT. It's not poor user design. That they go to the trash is good user design, to prevent users from doings things like this guy did...
Well, if not clear to the users, then it isn't good UI -- even if it's obvious to you.
Re: I lost years’ worth of Google Docs files because of a poor user interface
#8Everyone hates making backups. Everyone loves them when something happens.
There are many free online data storage systems. If you're happy with the privacy implications, it's not hard to run Google Drive, Dropbox and box.net on the same directory for some degree of resilience.
Re: I lost years’ worth of Google Docs files because of a poor user interface
#9Huh? If you remove the files from the copy of Google drive on your disk, they get removed on the web. It's one "drive." That's KIND OF THE WHOLE POINT. It's not poor user design. That they go to the trash is good user design, to prevent users from doings things like this guy did...
Well, if not clear to the users, then it isn't good UI -- even if it's obvious to you.
And most other people, I imagine.
Dropbox would work the same way. Although it might be permanent, but I've never tried something so ridiculous.
Re: I lost years’ worth of Google Docs files because of a poor user interface
#10Huh? If you remove the files from the copy of Google drive on your disk, they get removed on the web. It's one "drive." That's KIND OF THE WHOLE POINT. It's not poor user design. That they go to the trash is good user design, to prevent users from doings things like this guy did...
When you're moving a document off some drive, you expect a moved copy to work.