Google Drive just accidentally deleted years of data

jsnell 2 years ago |

Dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38427864

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38431743

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38562726

simonblack 2 years ago |

If you don't have sufficient responsibility for your own files, how do you expect somebody else to care more about them than you do?

Ever since a disaster with a Dropbox configuration in 2011, I've only relied on myself and not on anybody else to keep my files safe and available world-wide.

7e 2 years ago | |

This is like saying you need to perform your own appendectomy because you care more about your body than the surgeon does. Do you also fly your own jumbo jet when you travel? Grow all of your own food?

a_band 2 years ago |

Does anyone have any technical insights as to what happened here? Was it related to Google's new account deletion policy or something totally separate?

candiddevmike 2 years ago | |

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.

a_band 2 years ago | | |

Yeah, the timing is suspicious. Wonder if someone just fat-fingered a command.

candiddevmike 2 years ago | | |

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

meepmorp 2 years ago |

The actual headline is:

> Google Drive deleted six months worth of files. Here’s what happened and the fixes.

a_band 2 years ago | |

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.

lern_too_spel 2 years ago | | |

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.

a_band 2 years ago | | |

Some users are saying years but could it really be that long?

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/14286582?sjid=464734...

meepmorp 2 years ago | | |

Great, then submit a link to the other reports, not a blog post that says 6 months and doesn't expand on that.