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Google Drive was down
- pgrote 14y agoVery slow, but seems to be working for me. Ocassional "The server encountered an error. Please try again later" and Go Online error messages.
- marco-fiset 14y agoSame for me.
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- charliechalk 14y agogoogle have just updated apps status: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status&ts=1363618626403 http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status&ts=1... Apparently should be back up in 30 - 60 min
- denzil_correa 14y ago3/18/13 7:47 PM We're investigating reports of an issue with Google Drive. We will provide more information shortly. This is what it says. Where can you see the 30-60 minute recovery time frame?
- cooldeal 14y agoThis is one of the dangers of the Chromebooks' reliance on Google Drive and paltry local storage. Having 1TB of cloud storage is not very useful when it's inaccessible.
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- Achshar 14y agoShit happens. It was also possible if all your data was on the hard drive. And Google drive has an offline version of the app, so server downtimes limit the usage but don't make it completely useless. And if my hard drive breaks, it's not like a bunch of very well paid engineers are working relentlessly to bring my hard drive back as quickly as possible. But they are in case of a services like dropbox or drive. And not to mention that the whole backup work is being taken care of.
- recoiledsnake 14y ago>And Google drive has an offline version of the app How useful is that on a Chromebook that comes with 100GB/1TB of cloud storage and ~9.5GB of available local space?
- Achshar 14y agoEven if you have >9 gb of docs, you are not going to use all off them at once. Offline version is to keep a cache of most used/important files. Offline deals with temporary service downtime or network unavailability. It is not meant to provide a complete experience.
- jgroome 14y agoSorry, but you can't seriously compare uptime of cloud-based services to hard-disk failure. I've been using computers since I was 12, so about 17 years, and in that time I've had two hard disks break on me. I'm sure you're going to say you've had a lot more, but if your hard disks are going out of action at a rate even near to how often Google's core services drop out, well, you're doing something wrong. "Shit happens" is never a valid excuse, even for a service provided at no cost to the user.
- ConstantineXVI 14y agoI nearly never use Google Drove on my Chromebook outside of things I'd have in Drive anyway (Docs, etc). The only 'hard' ties to Google in ChromeOS are logins, updates, and a special Drive interface. I also don't treat it as a computer, just a slightly smarter thin client. And that's fine by me (in fact, that's part of the appeal).
- niggler 14y agoWhat are the alternatives to google drive, and how do they compare?
- TallGuyShort 14y agoThere's Microsoft's Office 360, but I haven't used it myself.
- TheAnimus 14y agoSkyDrive and DropBox are the two that come to mind. SkyDrive is quite good offering from Microsoft, I've not had downtime yet, but I just don't like the idea they scan my photographs for the old nudies! (Which apparently violate their TOS). DropBox is for some reason a darling with some people on the internet, I think because they love Python. However they had a security oopsie, which I don't care how short it was for, wasn't adiquately explained to my liking as to how such a mistake could be made.
- eli 14y agoI like Dropbox because it has a great & simple UI that masks some clever engineering. Does SkyDrive opportunistically do P2P LAN transfers? (More cynically, their reputation on "the internet" may be slightly inflated due to a very clever referral link scheme)
- psbp 14y agoSkydrive, and most of Microsoft's online services, went down for hours last week.
- josephagoss 14y agoBack when I was deciding what cloud drive to use I considered SkyDrive for a little while. However, after they admitted to the scanning of your files for nudes and illegal material I dropped them straight away and will never return. I've heard of the security issues with Dropbox so I always have any possible private/sensitive data encrypted in case the worst ever happened. (I use Dropbox because I have not found a alternative that just works)
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- FigBug 14y agoI didn't notice, since Google Drive pretty much always says "Unable to connect" for me. If I restart it, it'll stay connected for a while and then go back to "unable to connect" Anybody else have this issue?
- alenlpeacock 14y agoYes, that is my experience too. But I don't care; google drive is for google docs, and google docs aren't useful at all on my desktop. I'm not sure why I even run the gdrive desktop app.
- Evbn 14y agoYeah, the sync features are just there are a bare minimum checklist requirement. Drive was delayed for over five years for one single reason: because the VP in charge believed that storing files on a local machine was antithetical to Google's entire vision of how computing should work. (Source: In the Plex,by Steven Levy, interviews)
- cwhy 14y agoIt is down just after I uploaded a file... Is it related to the news of the shut down by the beloved Reader..?
- jaysonelliot 14y agoI don't fear the cloud, because I remember a world where most computers were mainframes and minicomputers, and you had a terminal, not a personal computer. The difference, of course, is that in the 1970s and '80s, one machine going down affected dozens or maybe hundreds of people. Now, if Google Drive goes down, millions of people are stranded until it comes back online. I like the return to the terminal/server model. It's convenient and familiar. That being said, monolithic services like Google Drive, iTunes Match, Dropbox, EA's game servers, etc., should really be more distributed and resistant to failure. Could someone more knowledgable than myself explain how cloud services could be less vulnerable to universal failures?
- qompiler 14y agoDropbox _is_ distributed and resistant to failure by design. edit: Not sure why I'm getting downvoted, maybe a link to a source will help. "Everything in your Dropbox folder is always on your hard drive and merely synced with our online service, so you have access to your files even if you're offline. If you have multiple linked computers on your local area network, we'll even sync from those computers rather than via the Dropbox service whenever it can." https://www.dropbox.com/help/42/en https://www.dropbox.com/help/42/en
- josh2600 14y agoIf running the same cryptographic key for all accounts is resistant to failure, you and I have different definitions of precautionary measures. Dropbox is not the shining example of corporate citizenry, especially when it comes to security (although they're fairly good on uptime).
- cryptoz 14y ago> "Everything in your Dropbox folder is always on your hard drive and merely synced with our online service, so you have access to your files even if you're offline. If you have multiple linked computers on your local area network, we'll even sync from those computers rather than via the Dropbox service whenever it can." There was a bug a couple months ago where Dropbox zero'd out some files, and then synced the 0 byte files across all of your connected computers, thereby destroying every linked Dropbox file that was affected. There was that bug a few months ago where Dropbox left all accounts open, with no passwords, for four hours or something like that. They are not resistant to failure by design.
- nickpresta 14y agoIt just seems the list page is slow. I can open up documents directly and they load instantly as normal. shrug
- scrapcode 14y agoDrive isn't down for me. Just a bit slow.
- mergy 14y agoLooks like someone has a case of the Mondays.
- nvr219 14y agoI feel like I should do something like this: ~/Dropbox/Google Drive/Skydrive/[ALL MY ACTUAL FILES HERE] That way I'm syncing with three different providers and if two go down my data is still available. I pay for dropbox so I can fit all my ISOs in dropbox, but the high priority docs (which total under 2gb) would be synced to all three (with the confidential stuff in a TrueCrypt file of course).
- eah13 14y agoMaybe someone did ~/Google Drive/Google Drive and created a rift in the space time continuum.
- jxf 14y agoThat's an interesting approach, but I wonder if it isn't subject to "thrashing" as soon as you start dealing with documents that are edited in more than one place. For instance, imagine that you have a laptop L and a desktop D. You edit shared document X in your "actual files" folder on L. Version 2 of X is saved on L, and you currently have version 1 of X on D. 1.) Dropbox happens to notice that X needs to be updated from v1 to v2 on D. Dropbox updates X to v2. 2.) Skydrive has not yet been notified of the changes to X. It changes X back to v1 for you on D. 3.) Dropbox notices that X has been modified on D. It sees that the new v1 X has an updated timestamp, so it assumes that this is a better version of X. Dropbox saves this as v3 (which is identical to the original v1). 4.) Dropbox pushes the v3 change to L, erasing your v2 work. Oops! Basically, unless every synchronization service follows precisely the same protocol, you're gonna have a bad time.
- nvr219 14y agoThis is beginning to sound like the script to Primer. Ugh. I'd have to somehow force skydrive to do its sync before google, before dropbox.
- Evbn 14y agoBetter to use one primary sync service and one secondary backup service , and during a primary outage, revert to hand management of edits.
- kattuviriyan 14y agoAny good Google Drive x Dropbox Sync Tools available? I guess, I need one such tool.
- shrikant 14y agoI believe this is because of Reddit. Some chap (maybe an HTC employee?) posted on the /r/Android subreddit that he was giving away a couple of HTC smartphones[1], and all one had to do to enter the giveaway way fill out their Reddit username in the linked Google Spreadsheet. This post has now been deleted from the front page as well as the subreddit -- I'm not sure why. [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1air46/hi_reddit_i_have_some_more_htcs_to_give_you/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1air46/hi_reddit_i_...
- pgrote 14y agoInteresting. It appears the contest was held previously and it brought down Drive then. http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1air46/hi_reddit_i_have_some_more_htcs_to_give_you/c8xrpzr http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1air46/hi_reddit_i_...
- damniatx 14y agoThis can't be the issue, even if it's get 10k submission per seconds, it can't make the system like Google Drive down. come on. that just ridiculous.
- sergiosgc 14y agoAbout as ridiculous as shutting down Jabber federation on GTalk because that was the only measure Google could take to limit spammy invites. Google has come down a lot from their pedestal last week. In my book, this Jabber federation issue put them on par with "two teenagers in a garage". So, ridiculous as it may be, today I believe one spreadsheet can bring GDrive down. Last week I had a different opinion.
- Evbn 14y agoThey shut down federated invitations, not federated conversations, I thought?
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- Terretta 14y agoDid you happen to look at the URL? http://drive.google.com/?test That's not an account protected page, that's the splash page asking you to create an account or log in. Perhaps it wasn't accessible to you because it was down?
- rpncreator 14y agoI honestly wonder how much this is costing them: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/sla.html http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/sla.html How do they calculate "Monthly Uptime Percentage"?
- bargl 14y agoSeriously? Google experiences such infrequent outages that it really is a reasonable alternative to most normal home storage solutions. I'd be interested to see an aggregation of data on down time for a PC, for the average user, due to viruses, malfunctioning hardware, broken HDD, stolen PCs, etc. VS common issues with Google drive and chromebook combination: stolen credentials, ISP outages and downtime. This is a good time to go check out other services and see if you like them better than Drive, but let's keep put the pitchforks and tar away for right now. And yes I realize this can severely affect a good subset of users, and disrupt their workflow, but let's really analyze the difference rather than just giving into our gut reactions eh?
- piyush_soni 14y agoWorks for me (I'm in US if that matters).
- josephagoss 14y agoI tried to like Google Drive, It was half the price of Dropbox and being a poor student I really needed the alternative. After a month I closed Drive down and went entirely over to Dropbox, it wasn't just one thing but many many little things that just showed how bad Google can be at desktop software. You get this feeling they hate the desktop and want it all to be online. Dropbox is so easy to use and does everything very well. I really wish it was a little cheaper though.
- Evbn 14y agoGoogle's hate for the desktop is extremely well advertised, and is their core value proposition.
- walls 14y agoYou mean you don't love having to manually 'retry all' on 'unsyncable files' every day?
- josephagoss 14y agoHaha wow! Now your bringing back memories! I never understood this, Dropbox never had this issue and I don't think dropbox even has a "retry" dialog!
- nvr219 14y agoIt's no secret that google hates the desktop. I remember getting a sales call from Google to move one of my clients from Exchange to Google Apps. When I asked about Outlook integration the rep was very upfront that Google's goal for Outlook integration is merely to get users comfortable with the transition to full-on web client. Doing everything online is Google's whole thing.
- jwillgoesfast 14y agoobviously this is the best solution: http://www.dilbertfiles.com http://www.dilbertfiles.com
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- cooldeal 14y agoInteresting this post is getting flagged off the front page. http://hnrankings.info/5394475/ http://hnrankings.info/5394475/ If this was news about Skydrive being down, this post would be #1 for days. The flag abuse by HN moderators with good karma continues...
- mydpy 14y agoI'm pretty sure I broke it.