Photos and Files Disappear from Google Drive Without Explanation
Users report photos and files vanishing from Google Drive accounts with no warning or recovery path. The platform provides no diagnostic tools to identify what happened or when content was deleted. This creates a severe trust problem for users relying on Drive as their primary photo backup, particularly given the migration of Google Photos storage to Drive.
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