All disappeared.

[NoshowJones]

All my archives (important) have disappeared from my Gmail account. Anyone know how that could have happened? Anyway I can recover them?

[Hummin]

3 minutes ago, NoshowJones said:

All my archives (important) have disappeared from my Gmail account. Anyone know how that could have happened? Anyway I can recover them?

 

Using your phone? 

Sure it is not just your offline archive? 

 

 

[NoshowJones]

1 minute ago, Hummin said:

 

Using your phone? 

Sure it is not just your offline archive? 

 

 

They have disappeared from my phone as well.

[Hummin]

1 minute ago, NoshowJones said:

They have disappeared from my phone as well.

I managed to delete my offline archive, and had my phone on data only wifi, but it shouldn't happen to your Google disk? 

 

Have you checked you trash in your Google disk?

[Hummin]

Google drive I ment

[NoshowJones]

1 minute ago, Hummin said:

I managed to delete my offline archive, and had my phone on data only wifi, but it shouldn't happen to your Google disk? 

 

Have you checked you trash in your Google disk?

Please excuse my ignorance, but what is my Google disk.

[Upnotover]

They should be in your "All Mail" folder - did you look there?

 

[Hummin]

30 minutes ago, NoshowJones said:

Please excuse my ignorance, but what is my Google disk.

Google Drive is a cloud storage service from Google that allows users to store, access, and share files and folders online. It offers a centralized hub where files are automatically synchronized across connected devices

[KannikaP]

1 minute ago, Hummin said:

Google Drive is a cloud storage service from Google that allows users to store, access, and share files and folders online. It offers a centralized hub where files are automatically synchronized across connected devices

Same as Microsoft's OneDrive. All important data, documents, photos, music etc should be kept up in the Cloud, as well as locally on a separate drive.

[NoshowJones]

24 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Google Drive is a cloud storage service from Google that allows users to store, access, and share files and folders online. It offers a centralized hub where files are automatically synchronized across connected devices

OK. I stopped using Hotmail years ago because sometimes I was losing things from the archives.

But I just don't trust any storage now.

[scubascuba3]

You've probably accidentally moved it, search for something in the folder

[NoshowJones]

1 hour ago, Upnotover said:

They should be in your "All Mail" folder - did you look there?

 

Yes, they are not there.

[NoshowJones]

34 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

You've probably accidentally moved it, search for something in the folder

I can't see how I could have done that.

[scubascuba3]

12 minutes ago, NoshowJones said:

I can't see how I could have done that.

Google wouldn't have deleted it, anyway reminder you need backups 

[johng]

2 hours ago, KannikaP said:

All important data, documents, photos, music etc should be kept up in the Cloud

Anything important or sensitive should be kept in a fireproof safe

Not in the “cloud“ where any

Tom (NSA) 

Dick (Mossad) or

Harry (MI5) can access them ! 🤬

[HappyExpat57]

I hope you retrieve your info. Then, make two separate backups in different physical locations. I did the system backups where I used to work, we had a saying "If it's not backed up then it doesn't exist."

[KannikaP]

30 minutes ago, johng said:

Anything important or sensitive should be kept in a fireproof safe

Not in the “cloud“ where any

Tom (NSA) 

Dick (Mossad) or

Harry (MI5) can access them ! 🤬

Please quote my full sentence.......... 

'as well as locally on a separate drive'

Yes, this separate drive could be kept in a locked, fireproof safe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[NoshowJones]

36 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

Google wouldn't have deleted it, anyway reminder you need backups 

Yes I will look into that. thanks.

[johng]

5 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

Please quote my full sentence........

Quoted for brevity

 

I disagree with you that "important" information should be kept on the cloud

I believe it's the last place you would want to keep it  due to Tom,Dick and Harry.

 

Pictures of cats , favourite music and  air raid plans on  Houthi rebel's perfectly acceptable 😋

[Hummin]

47 minutes ago, johng said:

Anything important or sensitive should be kept in a fireproof safe

Not in the “cloud“ where any

Tom (NSA) 

Dick (Mossad) or

Harry (MI5) can access them ! 🤬

I doubt any of us is legitimate targets for any of those above. Unless you got something to hide.

 

Just having a phone which listening 24 hours a day what you do, is your biggest risk. Can even access your camera and all your files, no matter what your do. 

 

 

[Quentin Zen]

happened to me many, many years before.   just too many clicks.  not recoverable, in my case.

 

I now have many gmail accounts, but let's talk about the TWO I have since 2005.  yea, nobody believes my email because it's super OP.  For this site, you get another gmail.  lol.  

 

with my TWO accounts.  I forward ALL mail and COPY all mail and whatever to BOTH accounts.    filters.     forwarding, whatever.  it's a good safe guard.  whatever, forward the spam if you must....just have two accounts and send them to both automatically.  then backup to your Google drive, and maybe put it on a USB if it's some super, super important stuff.  Print it out if , take pictures with your phone, back that up, do whatever based on how important these things are to you.   

 

OR.... pu them in a fireproof safe, bury them in a titanium bunker, and have them watched by one million snakes next to the Temple of Doom.

[Quentin Zen]

4 minutes ago, Hummin said:

I doubt any of us is legitimate targets for any of those above. Unless you got something to hide.

 

Just having a phone which listening 24 hours a day what you do, is your biggest risk. Can even access your camera and all your files, no matter what your do. 

 

 

I used to put tape over my camera but then I decided this might be a good way to see if I could do Onlyfans.   Billions might be watching me.....maybe trillions.    Over 100 KBG, CIA and MI6 agents watch me in Ploypenrai, Thailand, population 101.   

[Hummin]

2 minutes ago, Quentin Zen said:

I used to put tape over my camera but then I decided this might be a good way to see if I could do Onlyfans.   Billions might be watching me.....maybe trillions.    Over 100 KBG, CIA and MI6 agents watch me in Ploypenrai, Thailand, population 101.   

Interesting, so how do you really doing?

 

 

[chickenslegs]

You Tube video that may help.

 

[johng]

3 minutes ago, Hummin said:

I doubt any of us is legitimate targets for any of those above. Unless you got something to hide.

You don't know you have nothing to hide...  yet,  that is the whole point  something that is perfectly acceptable now  can quickly turn into "domestic terrorism" or some such BS,

there have and will be hackers who find back doors  to the data publish it the wide web or use it for blackmail..just the other day Glenn Greenwald  a highly rated journalist  had  his "sensitive" videos published online in an effort to shut him up...he had recently been very vocal about Tom.

(yes he is not like "us" )

 

Also if you have nothing to hide why not publish all your stuff here for everyone to see we promise to keep it safe too   ...are you sure you have nothing to hide ?

[johng]

10 minutes ago, Quentin Zen said:

watch me in Ploypenrai, Thailand,

Thai Milf Ploy AKA Ploy Ly, Ploy B    has nothing to hide  she shows you everything 😋

[Hummin]

4 minutes ago, johng said:

You don't know you have nothing to hide...  yet,  that is the whole point  something that is perfectly acceptable now  can quickly turn into "domestic terrorism" or some such BS,

there have and will be hackers who find back doors  to the data publish it the wide web or use it for blackmail..just the other day Glenn Greenwald  a highly rated journalist  had  his "sensitive" videos published online in an effort to shut him up...he had recently been very vocal about Tom.

(yes he is not like "us" )

 

Also if you have nothing to hide why not publish all your stuff here for everyone to see we promise to keep it safe too   ...are you sure you have nothing to hide ?

 

Common sense and paranoia is a fine balance,

 

Im a bit more worried about some of the members here than the state agencies interests in me. 
 

 

[KannikaP]

54 minutes ago, johng said:

Quoted for brevity

 

I disagree with you that "important" information should be kept on the cloud

I believe it's the last place you would want to keep it  due to Tom,Dick and Harry.

 

Pictures of cats , favourite music and  air raid plans on  Houthi rebel's perfectly acceptable 😋

Your brevity did not convey what I said. Cloud AND locally, and I back-up THAT SSD via Backupper.

It is so convenient to have data on OneDrive if, like me, you have an office PC, a home PC and sometimes need that data via your phone. The fact that they are all synced keeps everything up to date, and daily backups ensure my safety. 

[sikishrory]

People suggesting storing the files in the cloud - Personal preference I suppose but files in gmail are already in the cloud using your google storage quota.

So storing them in google drive you are essentially just saving them twice.

I used to do it myself but decided to rrach out to google one support which confirmed they use the same memory.

Regarding this all I can think is they were accidently removed or a new extension or  something ran a cleanup script targeting archive.

Or an actual google error. This was happening to acounts a few months ago.

[johng]

On 6/4/2025 at 5:28 PM, KannikaP said:

Your brevity did not convey what I said.

You already conveyed what you wanted to say  I didn't have to reiterate it,my point was that I personally wouldn't store anything “important“ on the cloud because it is easy pickings for Tom,Dick and Harry.