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It's A Digital Disease!

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/JaVelin-X- on 2025-02-11 00:14:30.

Nothing ground breaking where but I'm worried to doesn't work lie I think it does. I generate a lot of files these days but I only need to keep them for a few years. I've been buying small 1 or 2 tb drives to offload my computers on to. So I decided to give google drive a try ( I already use it but not local folders or rather drive for desktop until now)

I have a working folder locally that syncs with good drive. when I think it's time I Move all the files on the google drive (the actual synced folder) to a new folder (for longer term storage) and delete all the local files. and start over again.

Today I did exactly that and I'm not sure what's going on as the (drive) files I moved to a new folder starting winding up in the trash folder (in drive). I think its before the move operation was done cooking. is that right? I thought the move operation would be almost instantaneous.

I panicked a bit and started restoring some of the trash folder files but I'm taking a breath. It un nerves me there isn't a feedback mechanism progress to indicate what is happening.

I'm leery of the mostly do it all for you backup programs. I'm much more a pick the apple up and put it in a new box myself person.

I figured you folks on here would really know how this works

Oh ... it looks like Sync is restoring my local drive now to boot :/

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