Google Drive appears to have lost some of it's users files

Imagine keeping your only copies of files on google drive of all things... do people not know how to do proper backups?
- No, they really don't.

Really interested when we, hopefully, read the press statement from them regarding how much data was lost, even temporarily!
- Almost no chance of that ever happening.

Do we know if there's a way for me to check if I've been effected without trying to download every file I have on Drive?
- Believe the files are just gone

Good reminder to back mine up.
- Yup, doing a full local backup of all my Google data now. GDrive client hasn't been syncing for a few days on a couple of my machines for a couple weeks, but everything looks to be there.

I wonder if this is just consumer accounts and if workspace accounts are affected or not.
- I think in the sysadmin sub some people were talking about data loss in their workspace accounts but I could be delusional
  
  What does "consumer" and "workspace" mean in this context? "Google Workspace" pops up now whenever I start Gmail, so I figured it's just their new branding, but now I don't know what the difference is here.

It was only a matter of time considering how these companies consider consumers necessary pests and put the least possible effort in their services that are consumer facing.

Im glad I got rid of that stupid ass desktop app but gotta go check my drive now… well i backed up data there just recently, hope its safe in both places

What's really scary is that even if it's just a fraction of a percent, it's still tens or hundreds of TB of what's stored there. SHUDDER

i have noticed in 2022 that some of my files have disappeared from Google Drive. It’s happening because of toxic 2020 purge

THERE ARE ONLY 2 FILES ON MY DRIVE LEFT WTF. Luckily i don't think i ACTUALLY lost anything, but what the hell!

So from the rest of the comments it seems to be the desktop client. That thing is a bit of a dog of a program to be honest. I have a couple of offsite backups. I think I will keep them as archival moving forward and get even more backup drives. Anyone know a good tool I can use on a mac to compare my old backups with my current drive contents to check for missing folders / files? I use freefilesync at the moment to backup my plex library, I suppose that would be a good place to start?
- I use the client but only for streaming files, not sync. Maybe I'm in the clear?

Yuuuup... another reason why I'm glad to have spent nearly the GDP of a small country on my own NAS and backup drives...

This happened to me on aws last night. We woke up at all our database instances are deleted

Yep, the cloud is always going to be more reliable than self hosted.
Mhmmm.....yep.....right....

Amazing website. I'm unable to load the last 10 messages. It says it loads them sucessfully but it does nothing.

The people in there are acting like they only uploaded their files to Google Drive? Is "I'll dump all my files on that one place" a common practice? I know it might be mainstream, but one guy says his company's files were only on there..How is something so important to you just backed up into one place? Not even locally? These commenters in that support thread are very odd.
- It's "the cloud" man...don't worry about it. This is essentially the attitude I've heard even from professional IT people. I have stuff in Google Workspace, but nothing critical, and even then I'm also paying CloudAlly to back it up for me.