If you don't have sufficient responsibility for your own files, how do you expect somebody else to care more about them than you do?
Ever since a disaster with a Dropbox configuration in 2011, I've only relied on myself and not on anybody else to keep my files safe and available world-wide.
This is like saying you need to perform your own appendectomy because you care more about your body than the surgeon does. Do you also fly your own jumbo jet when you travel? Grow all of your own food?
Does anyone have any technical insights as to what happened here? Was it related to Google's new account deletion policy or something totally separate?
I wonder if there is any correlation to the files deleted and the user accounts that were pruned--basically the file was deleted because you shared it with a user account that was pruned
The links you posted say it was local files that had not been synced to Google Drive, so it's however long people were creating files that weren't synced to the cloud without the user noticing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38427864
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38431743
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38562726