So, Google just forced Google Drive down everyone's throats like a rusty piece of broken metal, tearing flesh and choking you painfully until you die.
Google Documents is gone. If you had Google Documents, you don't anymore.
Not only that. ALL MY DOCUMENTS ARE GONE.
All my campaign notes, all my worldbuilding, everything I had stored there for the last three years. All gone.
So far, nobody has found any solution. The files may be lost forever.
I read more about it, and found that people who used Google Documents in the workplace no longer can, as Drive uses cloud computing that violates the security policy of a great many companies. Many relied on Docs for reliable file transfer and sharing. It's all over now.
Wow that sucks
Google Documents is gone. If you had Google Documents, you don't anymore.
I still do
How? I get redirected to Drive, and am shown a folder with only a couple of files in it out of what used to be hundreds.
Even after researching it, people say there's no way to get Docs back.
I just went to google and clicked documents. Maybe I just haven't been upgraded yet. (I do have a link to find out about google drive however)
Make sure to back up everything. It may disappear in moments since Docs is being phased out and replaced by Drive. Maybe it hasn't happened in your region yet or something.
I just converted a test account from google documents to google drive and everything was in there.
So far doesn't look too scary
*Edit* Just converted my regular account for pbp. All my Google documents are now in Google drive.
It's not happening to everyone, but a lot of people are losing files. I keep seeing reports of people whose assignments and work reports vanished the day before they're due. They have the right to be upset. Google screwed up big time by forcing an untested service on users without warning.
I switched to Drive all my documents were/are there and in a sync folder (a la dropbox, although not as good).
Have you tried here?
I am using google drive for some time (i.e. since they first offered checking them out) and have no problems with them (aside for being not amused by "another change?! sheesh, they just changed the layout"). No files were lost (that I would recall).
Either you are victim of an error during the transition that lost all your files or the transition just messed with structure of your folders and now you can't find them.
I've done everything suggested by every help thread I could find. I'm not alone in this. Countless others are suffering the same.
Fair enough. I did think it might be pushing it, albeit not directed at an actual person. But I'm severely upset, dangit!
:(
Edit: Could you change it to: "Google Drive - Data loss hazard. Back up your files elsewhere!"
Let me see if I have this straight...
1.A company was nice enough to provide people a free way to store and share their files.
2. Some of those users did not back up the files they had stored for free with this company's service.
3. This company performs what they view as an upgrade, and seeing as they are providing a service for free, they do not give their users an option as to whether or not they wanted this theoretical upgrade. Also this upgrade makes it difficult for companies that have an established security policy that prevents cloud storage of data.
4. Some of these users who failed to back up their files may have lost some of them. (Or if they are patient, they may have only lost access to them temporarily, we shall see.)
5. Now people are up in arms about this free service being changed, and Google is the villain?
Verdict: Any issue is a user issue. Nobody forced people to use Google Docs or switch to Google Drive, Google merely provided a free service to people that has undergone a change. Any data loss is the fault of the user, as Google never made any guarantees regarding loss of data.
Advice: Instead of complaining about a free service, if the service warrants a complaint...simply do not take advantage of it.