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This could potentially explain a lingering error on my Google Drive. Might there be movement within Google to contact the owners of data that was lost?
by jneander 11y ago
This could potentially explain a lingering error on my Google Drive. Might there be movement within Google to contact the owners of data that was lost?
- Filligree 11y agoThe article mentions Compute Engine, which is an external offering that isn't really used internally. It's hard to say what else might have been affected, if anything, but going by the article this shouldn't be causing your problem.
- jneander 11y agoFair enough. One can hope.
- swah 11y agoFile syncing is a hard problem..
- JupiterMoon 11y agoOnly because we make it hard.
- AnimalMuppet 11y agoIf you've got a way to make it easy, we'd like to hear it.
- kuschku 11y agoSimilar to git, but if you have multiple branches of the same file, display them visually and allow the user to merge just that file?
- xeromal 11y agoIf people have to do anything it's not good enough.
- kuschku 11y agoThat is then mathematically impossible. What if I edit the same pixel, in the same image, in the same nanosecond on two different devices, and then sync? There are situations where conflicts are necessary. The focus should be on making conflict resolution easily accessible, not on trying to be smart and overriding files at random
- JupiterMoon 11y agoActually quite a lot of serious by non-power-users do want this. You only have to look at a random persons laptop and see and the file names with "final version.docx", "final version 2.docx" "final final version.docx" etc to see this. They certainly don't want a console based solution but a cross between git and word style track changes would make lots of people pretty happy.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoWell image if file systems, file formats and version control systems were built from the ground up together. Currently file syncing is harder because we expect our file server to handle an infinite variety of legacy file formats and the file sever cannot try to know anything about the document structure (whereas a version control system can examine the contents of plain text files). Surely this is why Google docs can manage collaborative working more easily -- because they can control of the whole stack. Better than the OP would be file syncing of arbitrary files between arbitrary systems is hard.
- jankeymeulen 11y agoCan't say for sure but I'd doubt it. (Disclaimer: I work there but have absolutely no knowledge about how Drive stores data)
- nkrisc 11y agoThe odds of it being your data is probably the same as you being struck by lightning four times...