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My experience with Google's Backup and Sync means I would never trust Google again. I put everything on Google's Backup and Sync... and was initially happy eno
by dbg31415 8y ago
My experience with Google's Backup and Sync means I would never trust Google again.
I put everything on Google's Backup and Sync... and was initially happy enough with it as a replacement for Dropbox.
Then my laptop crashed.
When I went to restore, I was limited to copying files down 2 GB at a time.
Worse... the process didn't tell me that, I had to figure it out after doing a few downloads and finding that not all my files made it. There was no warning, no errors. I hit download on a folder, it came down "successfully" but when I looked at the contents locally vs. what was on Google Drive it never matched up.
Can't stress enough how shitty this was. I had to manually save everything and manually check to make sure it all saved. I'm still not convinced I got it all downloaded correctly. Took probably 100 hours of my time. Never a single error message if you tried to download a folder that was bigger than 2 GB, but behind the scenes it was truncating files.