Google Drive users complain that months of stored data disappeared

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Google Drive bug causes months of stored data to vanish

Some Google Drive users have reported that files they recently uploaded to the platform disappeared — as if their Drives have reverted to a snapshot from around April/May 2023.

These frustrated users took to Google's support forums to complain, and many say they have lost recently saved data and folder structure adjustments.
 
Google has not even managed to play a YouTube video smoothly in SA for the past year with issues on and off. Why people use them for mail and files is beyond me.
 
I managed to recover data for an affected account from the local Google drive cache. If anyone is needs it, let me know and I will post the instructions for the fix here.

It involves juggling some metadata and cache files to make the local backup accessible on another PC or profile.
 
This cloud thing is proving as reliable as the cumulonimbus clouds promising 20mm of rain over Nelson Mandela Bay and then blowing away leaving just enough rain to smear my windscreen.
I dont call that rain, I call that intermittent wetness.
 
my incident was a paid personal account (google one)

Have not heard of any affected G-suite users

Yeah, I am on Gsuite and everything looks fine. Will check tonight on my PC when we have power again.
 
My Google drive files are synced to my server in SA (using the mirror option). That client downloads everything, and my gaming PC here in the UK just runs with the online version of files.
 

They are not wrong. But it is silly to pay for cloud services and then setting up your own server too.

But, if you think logically, it makes sense to set up your own local server with your own backup drives. It is a lot cheaper in the long run and you will be better off financially. My local server now have 60TB of space with another 60TB of backup drives. No cloud hosting service in the world can offer me this space at what I paid for it.

"Cloud Hosting" is just another modern day dumb generation thing. It does not work and people are ripping consumers off while it lasts.
 
Google once restored mailbox data of mine which was supposed to be deleted. I mean, deleted data with no retention policy. I did not request it, but was pleased by it. Neither did I inform them thereof.
 
Is there a way to do intermittent syncs between cloud storage providers, like say once a week and incremental?
 
Google has not even managed to play a YouTube video smoothly in SA for the past year with issues on and off. Why people use them for mail and files is beyond me.
What?

I use YT most days and never have an issue with 4k streaming on the platform or any other really.
 
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