Google Drive probably does the most famous and used online storage. The generous amount of space offered for free, payment plans for all needs and budgets, and its more than optimal integration into the company’s ecosystem of services and devices have made it an extremely popular solution, and its number of users has been growing steadily since its inception. until today.

This of course explains to us that Google she is forced to take certain measures to keep it under some control the volume of infrastructure necessary to provide the service. The clearest case is the company’s plans to immediately start deleting inactive accounts, but there are other lesser-known measures that also have effects in this sense, such as the end of free unlimited WhatsApp backups on Android.

Be that as it may, although Google Drive has added some (understandable) limitations in recent years, Today, it remains one of the most popular online storage services the majority. Now, the fact that it works perfectly the vast majority of the time and for the vast majority of users does not mean that problems never occur, whether due to bad decisions, as happened for example a few months ago (although they are quickly fixed later), or due to bugs, such as is the one that was just detected.

And what is the problem? As we can read on the technical support page of the service, Some Google Drive users have had their files disappear over the past six months. It doesn’t seem to be a widespread problem considering the number of queries, but it has hit a few users who all agree on the time range of the missing files. All of them are reporting that suddenly the state and contents of their storage spaces have reverted to May 2023.

The good news is that the company has already acknowledged the problem of these Google Drive users and has subsequently put a team to work looking for the cause of the problem and, of course, a solution. It allows users to recover lost files. Of course, where this solution is found, Google recommends against making changes to the drive or its contentsas this could complicate the recovery of lost property.