The mystery of the disappearing Google Drive files
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The horror of logging in only to find everything since May has vanished

UPDATED Google Drive users are reporting files mysteriously disappearing from the service, with some netizens on the goliath’s support forums claiming six or more months of work have unceremoniously vanished.

The issue has been rumbling for a few days, with one user logging into Google Drive and finding things as they were in May 2023.

  • @lwuy9v5English
    247•6 months ago

    Ha. Amateurs. I disappeared YEARS of my files by self-hosting.

      • iAmTheTot
        48•6 months ago

        … Why were you doing anything remotely like formatting a drive while drunk?

        • naticusEnglish
          47•6 months ago

          Nothing bad happened last time??

          • @VqhmEnglish
            14•6 months ago

            If you just did a format and didn’t overwrite the whole disk you could use DMDE, ddrescue, photorec, or testdisk to restore the files.

            Or even something nonfree like recuva.

            But this is why you’re supposed to do backups in 3s!

            • @KiernianEnglish
              6•6 months ago

              HRM. I may have to try this on an old disk that got accidentally formatted years ago that I haven’t touched since.

              Thanks.

        • @curveEnglish
          18•6 months ago

          If you can’t do it drunk don’t do it sober.

        • lemmyvoreEnglish
          10•6 months ago

          Well you know, it’s 2 AM, you’ve had a couple beers, and you say to yourself “you know what would be a GREAT idea, if I split these two RAID arrays and rearrange the disks so that the ones with pristine SMART are more evenly distributed!”

        • @registeredusernameEnglish
          3•6 months ago

          For confidence boost. Didn’t anyone tell you booze increases your mental HP /jk

    • @[email protected]English
      3•6 months ago

      Never flash disks/pendrives on evening or if you want things quickly done. Always unplug everything else first. Or else Murphys law.