[smt88]

No, Google does not help at all. You are stuck in a Kafkaesque hell. I know because I helped my brother out of one.

The only way I helped him was by having a friend who worked at Google. I hope you do too. You can tweet at them, but I think your Twitter account needs to be linked to the email address you no longer have access to.

I'm still so angry at Google that it actually made me emotional to type this. From the bottom of my heart, fuck that company for tricking us into thinking we can trust it with the most important parts of our digital lives. I hope the US breaks them up.

[mceachen]

You can at least get your whole family to pull down Google Takeout archives (yearly, or even quarterly for extra credit).

Having a recent backup makes the thought of losing everything there a while lot less threatening.

[smt88]

Because I have to use it for business, I also have a couple other paid email services that pull and archive all my Google mail, and I similarly mirror my photos/files.