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Alexis_J_M t1_jdgafvi wrote

Ugh, what a dreadful suggestion.

You're asking me to delete email from deceased loved ones, photos of family members and vacation trips, poetry from friends, legal notices about retirement accounts, the name of that great park I visited on vacation, my aunt's cherry chocolate cake recipe...

No. Just no. This is the worst LPT I've ever seen.

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the_colonelclink t1_jdgis6v wrote

As someone who works in IT, I was literally rolling my eyes while thinking “What could possibly go wrong?”.

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skatedude669 t1_jdgau2y wrote

Maybe just archive those and save them somewhere else? Lol

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sparoc3 t1_jdgzrax wrote

Don't pay Google for cloud storage by using this simple trick

However you'll have to pay Dropbox.

Looks like an ad.

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GalumphingWithGlee t1_jdkrf1f wrote

Dropbox is free, though limited storage on the free plan. OP isn't necessarily recommending Dropbox in place of Google, but they're using Dropbox only for documents and such, which don't generally take up a lot of space. Their usage of Dropbox means they don't have to worry as much about losing important documents this way. I don't think it's an ad.

I totally agree, though, that it's just not a very useful tip. There's too much potential to cause problems larger than the one you solve.

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iCantliveOnCrumbsOfD t1_jdhceg5 wrote

Since you have so many things that are very important maybe you should back them up in multiple places? Like Google drive and other cloud services. I think it's a great LPT.

In your instance maybe you only need to go back 3 years... If your oldest things are at 6 and 7 years ago They won't come up in the search. But still back them up in other places because you never know.... Shit even print some of them out old school

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Alexis_J_M t1_jdiyolh wrote

I've been using my Gmail account for over 20 years. There's no other cloud storage I've been using that long.

And yes, I know, putting all my eggs in one basket is risky. But wholesale deletion is certainly not the answer.

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el-em-en-o t1_jdgj820 wrote

Oh gosh no don’t do that. I thought in the context of work.

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