On Monday The Register spotted a trending post on the Google Drive forums where a user claimed that months of Drive data suddenly disappeared, and their files went back to a state from May 2023.

Google removed the Favicon user agent and said you must allow Googlebot and Googlebot-Image for Google to index your site's favicon. Google has updated its favicon search developer documentation ...

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Google says the issue only impacted a “small subset” of Drive users on desktop using version 84. Hopefully, this solution can help get missing files back to users. See More : ...

When it comes to backing up your Google Drive data, you have numerous choices. Here are five solid backup tools that will provide you with a safety net for nearly every situation.

Google Drive sells storage plans starting at $2/month for 100GB of storage, which could easily be filled by five million files at 4kb a piece. In fact, that’d only take up 20GB of storage.

Google Drive is available on all major platforms, and many small ones. It has handy backup for those with Android, but the settings are difficult to understand.

The 5 million file cap applied to all of these people, and it was ridiculously small for most of Google's storage tiers. If you have all 4KB files, it's possible to hit 5 million files in about 20GB.

Security Updates for Shared Files. Google is changing the way that certain shared files and folders work in Drive—or, to be more exact, it made the change back in 2017 and is now fully enforcing it.

Google Drive is among the world’s most popular cloud storage services. And i f you use Gmail, you use Google Drive too, since the 15GB free storage yo. Skip to Main Content.