Because it's a paid service. But explaining the emotions you've projected upon OP isn't useful discussion.

From the OP:

> Just give us a web filesystem already. Stop with these shitty infantilized GUIs ... That actually worked ffs. ...

I responded by saying:

> Your level of angst makes me think ...

I suppose I could be wrong about the OP expressing angst, but I think it's reasonable inference.

Also, you wrote:

> Because it's a paid service.

I see two problems here:

(1) I was asking the OP (@titzer) what their reasons were, not yours.

(2) Only some people pay for Google Drive. One reason that I wrote:

> Your level of angst makes me think you believe someone out there is obligated to do this for you.

>

> If you believe that, I'm curious why.

was that if the @titzer was paying for Google Drive, I could see him having a stronger reason for expecting Google to make the product useful to him. But I didn't want to assume, which is why I asked.

Just gonna leave this here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't go into how another person is feeling, just read the comment and reply. It will never go well for you if you try to dismiss somebody's comments by focusing on how they are feeling instead of their words.

I am paying for Google Drive and I agree with Titzer.

It barely works.

Google Drive deletes files randomly (whether due to programmatic/storage problems or the documented issue with the algo not liking things and silently deleting them).

Missing block level sync reinforces that it's a toy. What would you do with 100+gb they tout if not having big media files? 10,000 spreadsheets (that might still randomly get deleted)?

I would be afraid to rely on it for business

I work on Drive.

If you're observing deleted files, and you don't have any third party applications with access to your Drive, we'd be very interested in hearing from you, we take data integrity issues very seriously.

You can check the activity under any folder and see what issued the deletes. If there are missing files _without_ an entry there, and it doesn't seem to be a rogue integration with the Drive API, feel free to get in touch with me.

I appreciate the response.

Despite my acidulous comment I have only once personally experienced a silent deletion, and it was with a Google Sheet a few years ago.

It was a "Copy of" produced by "make a copy" menu option that ended up deleted, which I confirmed with someone else who also had made a copy the same exact way, who couldnt access theirs either. Is this expected behavior when the source file is deleted, or is it, as I thought, a bug?

> It was a "Copy of" produced by "make a copy" menu option that ended up deleted, which I confirmed with someone else who also had made a copy the same exact way, who couldnt access theirs either. Is this expected behavior when the source file is deleted, or is it, as I thought, a bug?

Without being able to look at the item in question, I couldn't tell. However, deleting copies when a source file disappears is unexpected and as far as I'm aware there's no mechanism for "dependent" deletes.

Where did you copy the item to? Was it stored in your My Drive?

I see no proof of it doing this. It sounds like it you are saving spreadsheets it may have to do with an extension or third-party app you are using. I've never had an issue with files randomly getting deleted on Google Drive and it would be a much bigger issue if this was common.

> There's a difference between "I wish this product had feature X" and "I'm upset because I'm owed feature X for reason Y."

Then you probably shouldn't have added the owed part.