Google wipes out Gmail accounts and messages

[sgtguthrie]

Wait, is it just gmail? Or your entire google account? I would be screwed! Calendar, contacts, email, picasa web albums, etc. I need to look into finding a way to backup EVERYTHING without it being a constant effort...

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[Mrs EB]

If I were part of that percentage, would that mean that my messages are also gone when I check my gmail account on my Macbook Pro? Gmail is my the only email that I have set up on the Macbook Pro.

Yeah it's not an android specific thing. Affects your email itself regardless of how you access it.

What if I were to check my email on my laptop before I used the Droid? Would I still have my email?

[devator22]

I feel like the title of this post should have been a little more clear. I saw it and freaked out, but then read it only affected .08% of people >.>

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[czerdrill]

If I were part of that percentage, would that mean that my messages are also gone when I check my gmail account on my Macbook Pro? Gmail is my the only email that I have set up on the Macbook Pro.

Yeah it's not an android specific thing. Affects your email itself regardless of how you access it.

What if I were to check my email on my laptop before I used the Droid? Would I still have my email?

From what I understand, it doesn't matter where you check it from, if you were one of the ones affected. You can try backing everything up if you want in case you're worried about it happening. But from what I'm reading, it's your Gmail itself that gets wiped out, doesn't matter if you use an android phone, a Macbook, or Linux. The emails are not stored on your computer, their stored in Google's cloud, and that's where the problem is. If you are one of the ones affected, there is nothing you can do except wait for Google to hopefully fix it.

[Mrs EB]

Besides wanting to know if my email would still be there if I used my laptop first before the Droid (yes, I know this problem affected >1% of users), I also wanted to find out if only new inbox emails were being deleted or are all the emails gone including those in the inbox and others filed.

[czerdrill]

Besides wanting to know if my email would still be there if I used my laptop first before the Droid (yes, I know this problem affected >1% of users), I also wanted to find out if only new inbox emails were being deleted or are all the emails gone including those in the inbox and others filed.

It's all emails that weren't archived that are gone. Meaning if they weren't filed, they would be gone. Again, this is only if you are one of the ones affected, and Google says that they expect everyone to get their mail back.

[Mrs EB]

Yeah it's not an android specific thing. Affects your email itself regardless of how you access it.

What if I were to check my email on my laptop before I used the Droid? Would I still have my email?

From what I understand, it doesn't matter where you check it from, if you were one of the ones affected. You can try backing everything up if you want in case you're worried about it happening. But from what I'm reading, it's your Gmail itself that gets wiped out, doesn't matter if you use an android phone, a Macbook, or Linux. The emails are not stored on your computer, their stored in Google's cloud, and that's where the problem is. If you are one of the ones affected, there is nothing you can do except wait for Google to hopefully fix it.

Ahhh ok. Then you answered my next question I think. I back everything up to an external hard drive. Wouldn't my gmail emails and settings also be backed up?

[czerdrill]

What if I were to check my email on my laptop before I used the Droid? Would I still have my email?

From what I understand, it doesn't matter where you check it from, if you were one of the ones affected. You can try backing everything up if you want in case you're worried about it happening. But from what I'm reading, it's your Gmail itself that gets wiped out, doesn't matter if you use an android phone, a Macbook, or Linux. The emails are not stored on your computer, their stored in Google's cloud, and that's where the problem is. If you are one of the ones affected, there is nothing you can do except wait for Google to hopefully fix it.

Ahhh ok. Then you answered my next question I think. I back everything up to an external hard drive. Wouldn't my gmail emails and settings also be backed up?

You back up your hard drive? If so, no, that has nothing to do with your gmail. You would have had to back up your gmail from gmail itself (I believe by archiving although I'm not positive). If that's what you did then it's fine. If you just backed up your hard drive, no, that won't prevent you from losing your emails, as your emails are not stored on your hard drive

[Mrs EB]

You back up your hard drive? If so, no, that has nothing to do with your gmail. You would have had to back up your gmail from gmail itself (I believe by archiving although I'm not positive). If that's what you did then it's fine. If you just backed up your hard drive, no, that won't prevent you from losing your emails, as your emails are not stored on your hard drive

My backup is the external hard drive. I thought it backed up everything including the emails.

Now I have to learn how to "archive" them.

Thanks.

[Mrs EB]

Actually, to save my emails, I have a choice of saving them directly to the Mac or to gmail itself. So those I save to gmail I guess don't go on the hard drive when I do a backup.