Google Drive just accidentally deleted years of data (opens in new tab)

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9 pointsa_band2y ago12 comments

12 comments

jsnell2y ago

Dupe:

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

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

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

simonblack2y 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.

7e2y 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_bandOP2y 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?

candiddevmike2y 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_bandOP2y ago

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

candiddevmike2y 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

meepmorp2y ago

The actual headline is:

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

a_bandOP2y 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_spel2y 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_bandOP2y ago

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

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

meepmorp2y ago

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

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12 comments

jsnell2y ago

Dupe:

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

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

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

simonblack2y 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.

7e2y ago

a_bandOP2y 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?

candiddevmike2y 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_bandOP2y ago

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

candiddevmike2y 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

meepmorp2y ago

The actual headline is:

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

a_bandOP2y 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_spel2y 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_bandOP2y ago

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

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

meepmorp2y ago

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

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