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.

    • Vqhm@lemmy.world
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      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!

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        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.