Google Drive helps you get to your files faster by recognizing objects in your images and text in scanned documents. Even if your computer, phone or tablet break, the files you store in Google Drive are safe.Upload photos, videos, documents, and other files that are important to you to Google Drive. Using Google Drive is a great way to store your files safely in secure data centers, where your files won’t go missing. The glitch only affected Google Drive users syncing files between their local machines and the cloud, according to Google, which gave little explanation aside from 'don't mess with things until we figure this out.Google Drive (Backup and Sync) lets you access your stuff on every computer and mobile device. Posters to Google's help pages said their Google Drive suddenly seemed to revert to its appearance as far back as six months prior with no indication as to what had happened, or why. Lost in translation and adrift in cloud storageįor anyone lucky enough not to have suffered from the spate of missing files that hit Google Drive users starting last month, users began reporting the issue in late November.JP Morgan accidentally deletes evidence in multi-million record retention screwup.Now it's killing those, and Drive for desktop is returning Google killed desktop Drive and replaced it with two apps.

Time to take action: Google's inactive account purge begins Friday.If you didn't do that, tough luck – at least per Google's instructions. Instructions are additionally included for those who may have disconnected their account or removed their local Drive cache in a bid to solve the problem on their own, but those are limited to using restoration from Windows backups or macOS Time Machine. Google asks anyone with problems recovering their files to submit feedback through the Drive desktop app labeled with the hashtag #DFD84, and with diagnostic logs included.įor those who want more granular control over their Drive file recovery, Google also included steps for how to recover files via the command line.

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