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Quote from my post: https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/google-illegally-retains-cus... Google wants you to believe that the prompt HAS BEEN DELETED from the server. When you empty the trash in Drive, the AI Studio interface states that “there is no such prompt”. This text clearly MEANS it was deleted from the server. But in reality, it was NOT deleted from the server, because after the Drive file recovery the prompt loads the exact same way with the same link. The current delete button, which they renamed to cover up their fraud, says: “Move prompt to trash
Are you sure? Your prompt will be permanently deleted after 30 days.”. The prompt goes to the trash, which will be permanently deleted after 30 days. That is what it says, right. But this is a lie, because it is not the prompt that goes to the trash, but the pointer, the json. The prompt is never deleted from the Google servers. Google wanted you to believe that it was deleted from the server, while they DO NOT delete it. Renaming the button only served this purpose. This forum post from 2025 is also evidence against them, where a Google developer also confirmed that the prompt comes back with its own url, and several users described the same thing: https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/deleted-chats-remain-accessi.... This is the archive of that post on archive ph: https://archive.ph/Kuhcm Google’s own developer (Lalit_Kumar, 2025) wrote that the chat is actually not the JSON file in Drive, but only metadata. Due to the loss of the metadata, AI Studio “does not recognize” the chat — but this is not a deletion. This proves that the “there is no such prompt” UI text is a lie, because the prompt actually continues to live on Google’s server. This can be found here: https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/saved-prompt-history-extensi... And its archive.ph save is here: https://archive.ph/ghAaS Google cannot deny my evidence, see you in court! |
So my theory is that Google Drive file = full chat log + metadata. The only server where the chat log is stored is Google Drive one. Deleting Google Drive file deletes the chat log. Recovering Google Drive file recovers the chat log. Not recovering Google Drive file means it's eventually purged. The link thing means that chat can be accessed even when it's in the trash can.
Have you went to Google Drive and checked the sizes of those files? If they are the links, they should all be the same. If they are raw data, they should be smaller for older files and bigger for newer files. Please check and report.
Also, download the file and open it in editor. Does it has your messages, or does it only has a pointer?