G Suite Horror Story

Re:G Suite Horror Story by albinowax_ on Sunday August 05, 2018 @04:39AM (#17690369)

I do this with Thunderbird, but copy the emails to a local folder to keep my online inbox clear. I've done it for years and just yesterday it decided to delete my local inbox. Good times.

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Re:G Suite Horror Story by exikyut on Sunday August 05, 2018 @06:19AM (#17690579)

Wait. Were you able to get everything back, say from a backup?

And do you know why Thunderbird decided to do that?

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Re:G Suite Horror Story by albinowax_ on Sunday August 05, 2018 @01:25PM (#17692367)

I have no idea what caused it. This happened during my backup process so I lost about a month worth of personal emails. Definitely a nuisance but i don't think I lost anything critical.

It looks like the offline backup process needs to be:

- Download emails with thunderbird (using IMAP so they aren't deleted online)

- Then backup the local emails

- Then finally delete them from the online folder

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Re:G Suite Horror Story by tempestn on Sunday August 05, 2018 @04:59PM (#17693493)

Or keep continuous, incremental backups of your local disk. IMO that's a good idea regardless to avoid losing stuff.

Personally I prefer to leave everything on gmail as well as the local backup though, so it's all searchable there.

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