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At my former employer we successfully used Google vault to recover our HR files which vanished due to a Google bug (there were no audit logs of anyone moving o
by ajb 3y ago
At my former employer we successfully used Google vault to recover our HR files which vanished due to a Google bug (there were no audit logs of anyone moving or deleting them). I think vault is only available on higher business tiers. The files were actually still there (if you had the direct URL you could still access them) but just missing from the directory. I don't know if that's true for the present bug but if you're files have gone missing it's worth trying.
One strange effect of vault export is that it converts all docs to word format. This seems odd in an evidentiary process, but I guess lawyers only use word anyway. It also doesn't export them is the same layout (I guess that's probably somewhere in the metadata though)
- londons_explore 3y agoGoogle doesn't have a native file format (at least not one visible to users) - so they have to convert it if you want to be able to take the files away and use them elsewhere. I'd guess their lack of format is deliberate - by never letting their own format leave their own machines, they have no need for backwards compatibility and can do data format changes easily and update all the data too.
- ajb 3y agoThey must have something, what happens to Google docs in drive when you sync them to your hd?
- londons_explore 3y agoOpen one... It's a JSON file just pointing to the web URL.
- ajb 3y agoThanks - I'm on linux, there's no client. I guess it must actually download it if you select 'work offline' but probably still obfuscates it somehow.