I tried looking for a really old file but it seems like I've lost alot of things.

I was gonna share this report I wrote for school with a friend. I remember throughout college I kept my school files organized on Drive, but when I went to look for it nothing seemed right. The rule is that I have a folder for every class I had organized by semester and year and alot of them are gone. Classes I know I took I have no record of anything I did there.

It's kind of a bummer. I found some record of me writing this report, I wrote it in December 2020.. Has there been some files loss in Google Drive that I didn't know about? It's kind of a bummer that I can't look at these old things I did but, I'm just hoping for the best.

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8565@lemmy.techtriage.guru · 4 pts · 2y

Google arbitrarily has deleted files from my drive before. I just gave up and spun up a Nextcloud server to get away from the BS

LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

yeah I learned the hard way that clouds are handy but they cannot be trusted to keep everything. It's best to back everything up on a hard drive, but not everybody is inclined to do that.

Wilshire@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y

Applies to Gmail, Drive, and Photos

If you're inactive in one or more of these services for two years (24 months), Google may delete the content in the product(s) in which you're inactive.

Similarly, if you're over your storage limit for two years, Google may delete your content across Gmail, Drive and Photos.

https://blog.google/products/photos/storage-policy-update/