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.

  • iAmTheTot
    48•7 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]English
        14•7 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!

        • @[email protected]English
          6•7 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.

    • lemmyvoreEnglish
      10•7 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!”