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Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer files::The horror of logging in only to find everything since May has vanished

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[โ€“] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

From the posted fix it looks like the client was buggy and stopped uploading new files for months; newer version checked if they were actually uploaded and if not, removed. If that's true and it happened to me i couldn't trust google drive anymore. Maybe just to host a backup of a backup

[โ€“] LWD@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)