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Are we sure this is limited to Drive? The Ars article mentions that some users reportedly lost data without using the desktop app at all, which seems to imply t

Are we sure this is limited to Drive? The Ars article mentions that some users reportedly lost data without using the desktop app at all, which seems to imply that (one of?) the bugs was inside Google's infra. I wonder if they might have suffered some invisible data corruption issue in Colossus or whatever they use now, and the effects on Drive just happen to be the most visible. Though presumably whatever broke wasn't part of GCP or we would have noticed by now, right?

gruez 3y ago
> Are we sure this is limited to Drive? The Ars article mentions that some users reportedly lost data without using the desktop app at all, which seems to imply that (one of?) the bugs was inside Google's infra. Seems much more plausible that there's something wrong with the backend code for google drive (the product).
- jeffbee 3y ago
  Seriously. The system in question is a distributed one with multiple participants and the resolution, which is gated to specific versions of the Windows sync client, strongly suggests the bug is in that client.
  - mook 3y ago
    The Ars article mentions people losing things in Sheets where they didn't have a Windows client at all, though. Of course, we have inadequate intimation to determine if it's the same issue.
- RachelF 3y ago
  Hard to tell. Google does lose data, but they aren't going to own up to it. Anecdotally, I use a different Google Drive client (Syncdocs) and haven't lost anything. However, I don't know what % of users are affected.