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by napoleond 4920 days ago
Wait a sec, does this mean when I delete my files they are ... not being deleted?

This is true of almost every service on the internet. If it wasn't, whenever the only disk that had your account on it failed you would be absolutely livid about the fact that they never made any backups. (It is generally infeasible to purge backups of any deleted data, because they're stored in compressed blobs.)
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joering2 4920 days ago
> This is true of almost every service on the internet

can you back this claim up somehow? I recall Flicker losing bunch of profiles (photos) permanently because once its deleted, well its deleted.

What you are confusing is planned backups, in case of hard drive failure, and the fact that customer executed delete command and consent to get those files deleted. two different things.

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napoleond 4920 days ago
can you back this claim up somehow?

I don't know where to start collecting anecdotes and appeals to authority, but I shouldn't need to. See my parenthetical above--how would you go about digging through terabytes of compressed backups to find every instance of a single file and its corresponding database record so that you could delete it? It would be possible to engineer such a system, but in most cases it would be an extremely poor allocation of resources.

If you upload something to the internet and you want to be the only person who is ever able to pull it back out, you should encrypt it.

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abraham 4920 days ago
as I recall they managed to restore most of those photos.
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