Is your Gmail data safe? - GoFuckYourself.com

u-Bob · 03-09-2006, 07:57 AM

The story of a guy whose Gmail account was deleted...

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I was able to check my GMail account and emails fine at work.

However just an hour later, when I reached home and attempted to access gmail.com, I was greeted by a "Server Error" as follows:

<blockquote>Server Error

We're sorry, but Gmail is temporarily unavailable. We're currently working to fix the problem ? please try logging in to your account in a few minutes.</blockquote>

Fine, I thought ? just a small hiccup which the Google folks are working on. Over the next couple of hours I attempted to login every 15 minutes or so but to no avail. By then it was past midnight and I needed to catch up on some sleep, so I decided to head to bed and hoped that things would be resolved by the next morning (i.e. today).

I woke up earlier today, and unfortunately my expectations were dashed. By then I sensed that something was terribly wrong, as the Google folks rarely took > 12 hours to fix such a problem. I accessed the Google Accounts page (www.google.com/accounts/), and saw the following message:

<blockquote> The account you attempted to access has been deleted. You may click here to sign up for a new account.</blockquote>

A nightmare come true?! I tried logging into my Google Account via www.google.com/accounts/Login but was presented with an invalid username/password error.

I tried to reset my password, and my suspicions were confirmed when I saw the following:

<blockquote> There are no accounts in our system with the E-mail address usermame[put at-character here]gmail.com which you entered.</blockquote>

Has my Google account really been deleted? I use it religiously and it is my primary email account. I have over 300mb of CRUCIAL data in my email, none of which I have backups for.

"The Web world was abuzz this week over rumors that Google is preparing a service that will let people store every bit of their data online."
http://goog-ipo.blogspot.com/2006/03...-strategy.html

Manowar · 03-09-2006, 07:59 AM

1 case out of millions of users tbh

xclusive · 03-09-2006, 08:00 AM

Google sucks at the internet

Martin3 · 03-09-2006, 08:01 AM

Hell of alot safer then on Yahoo. I've had 3 accounts deleted from them. One I'd had about 6-7yrs and poof....

chadglni · 03-09-2006, 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Martin3

Hell of alot safer then on Yahoo. I've had 3 accounts deleted from them. One I'd had about 6-7yrs and poof....

Yahoo are fucksticks. They killed one of my usernames that I had forever. Problem was, I had a hosting account with them and had registered a mainstream domain for it. No more logging into my hosting account, transferring the name, nothing. Bunch of damn idiots over there.

wdforty · 03-09-2006, 08:18 AM

I just downloaded all my mail via POP3 to be safe.

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Martin3 Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Houston Posts: 1,529	Hell of alot safer then on Yahoo. I've had 3 accounts deleted from them. One I'd had about 6-7yrs and poof.... __________________ 264-543-302

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wdforty Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 1,824	I just downloaded all my mail via POP3 to be safe. __________________ icq 157542142

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Manowar jellyfish Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 71,528	1 case out of millions of users tbh