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Re:Google Drive trash items will be automatically deleted af... by ocdtrekkie on Thursday September 24, 2020 @04:41PM (#24583356)
Definitely just an "aligning reality with expectation" change. Most people probably assume their trash is occasionally cleared. It's arguably potentially problematic for them if they are keeping data around users asked them to trash.

Of course, when they first wrote this, I imagine keeping trash indefinitely had a nearly nonexistent impact on the bottom line, and now there's probably several datacenter racks worth of drives dedicated to storing and replicating trash.

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Re:Google Drive trash items will be automatically deleted af... by BlueGh0st on Thursday September 24, 2020 @05:35PM (#24583963)
Precisely this. From the email I received from Google

> ..Google Drive is making a change so that its trash behaves more consistently with the rest of Google applications (such as Gmail) with regards to automatic deletion.

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Re:Google Drive trash items will be automatically deleted af... by ksk on Thursday September 24, 2020 @07:23PM (#24584843)
I agree with this policy in principle, but a ton of non-technical people in my office know that the recycle bin in Windows is never automatically emptied and rely on that fact (scary!). The 'expectation' can vary based on your experience IMO.
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Re:Google Drive trash items will be automatically deleted af... by caturopath on Thursday September 24, 2020 @05:07PM (#24583662)
> Of course, when they first wrote this, I imagine keeping trash indefinitely had a nearly nonexistent impact on the bottom line, and now there's probably several datacenter racks worth of drives dedicated to storing and replicating trash.

Why is why they don't just let everyone upload HD videos to Youtube.

Oh wait

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