> My friend has lost all her Gmail emails since May 2023 until Tuesday 21 November.
> I did have gmail fail to deliver a bunch of email from Thursday - Friday.
I'm honestly just stunned to be reading stuff like this. I'm only just now realizing this that I'd always implicitly assumed that Google would not make mistakes like this. I guess it's time to go frantically run Takeout on all of my Google accounts... and figure out somewhere to save the ZIP files other than Google Drive.
Just curious, how do you know that Gmail failed to deliver the email? Is it possible that you just genuinely got no email for a couple days, and then got a spike of email on Saturday? Poisson processes do be like that sometimes...
Well the emails said Thursday and Friday on them. I have inbox zero lifestyle. I only get 5 emails a day so getting 12 or so of them from a few days ago. Only explanation is they weren’t sent.
Also, I was buying something on gumtree. I missed out on the sale because I didn’t receive any emails with the reply from the seller to my messages. They did reply I found in the app, but I didn’t realise until they sold the item to someone else.
So I had the messages in gumtree app. The emails turned up on Saturday.
> I'm only just now realizing this that I'd always implicitly assumed that Google would not make mistakes like this.
I kind of agree, but I noticed a little while ago that there some quirk in my Google Drive where a directory was empty but the directory was also appearing in two separate parent directories.
I'm moving off Google Drive for different reasons but I'm sure I had a file in there that has disappeared.
Any file/directory in Google Drive could have multiple parents by design (this behavior was discontinued a few years ago), so a directory appearing in two separate parent directories doesn’t necessarily indicate a quirk.
Another counterintuitive thing about Google Drive is items with the same name can coexist in the same directory.
> I did have gmail fail to deliver a bunch of email from Thursday - Friday.
I'm honestly just stunned to be reading stuff like this. I'm only just now realizing this that I'd always implicitly assumed that Google would not make mistakes like this. I guess it's time to go frantically run Takeout on all of my Google accounts... and figure out somewhere to save the ZIP files other than Google Drive.
Just curious, how do you know that Gmail failed to deliver the email? Is it possible that you just genuinely got no email for a couple days, and then got a spike of email on Saturday? Poisson processes do be like that sometimes...