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by m_coder 3207 days ago
And now I am very glad that I never used Google Drive for much of anything. I never had a good gut feeling about drive in general and especially after I read about a man who lost a year's worth of stuff with no recourse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6612854
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pfg 3207 days ago
Not to say that there aren't valid reasons to think twice about relying exclusively on Google, but the title is slightly misleading in that Google isn't really deprecating Google Drive with no replacement, but rather introducing both Backup and Sync, which behaves like Google Drive (plus some new features), and Drive File Stream, which behaves more like a network drive.
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Xorlev 3207 days ago
Drive isn't shutting down. The older desktop app is deprecated, replaced by Drive Backup and Sync and adding a new product which is effectively a network filesystem built on top of Drive.
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lotsofpulp 3207 days ago
Unless you know someone on the board of Alphabet, there is no reason to use Google software for anything important.
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