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29-12-2006, 09:28 AM
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Broken In
Join Date: May 2006
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ALERT: Gmail Disaster: Reports Of Mass Email Deletions
Gmail Disaster: Reports Of Mass Email Deletions ::techcrunch::
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Just a week after I wrote “Uh Oh, Gmail Just Got Perfect” a number of users started complaining that all of their Gmail emails and contacts were auto deleted. The first message, posted on the Google Groups forum on December 19, stated “Found my account clean..nothing in Inbox, contacts ,sent mail..How can all these information residing in different folders disappear? ..How to write to gmail help team to restore the account..is it possible?..Where to report this abuse?.Any help ..Welcome..Thanks in advance ps101″
Other Gmail users then added to the conversation, saying that their emails had been deleted as well. Most of the users reported using Firefox 2.0 and that Gmail was open in their browser when the deletions occured.The cause of the problem isn’t clear. One user wrote.........
A representative from Google just sent the following email:
Hi there TechCrunch folks,
We saw your post today about Gmail and wanted to let you know what was going on.Regretfully, a small number of our users — around 60 — lost some or all of their email received prior to December 18th. Once we found out about this issue, we worked day and night to confirm that only a few accounts were affected and to do whatever we could to restore as much of the users’ accounts as we could. We’ve also reached out to the people who were affected to apologize and to work with them to restore the email from any personal backup they might have.We know how important Gmail is to our users – we use it ourselves for our corporate email. We have extensive safeguards in place to protect email stored with Gmail and we are confident that this is a small and isolated incident.
Thanks,
Courtney
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29-12-2006, 10:52 AM
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Apprentice
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Re: ALERT: Gmail Disaster: Reports Of Mass Email Deletions
its something wid firefox 2.0 not gmail
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29-12-2006, 12:45 PM
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GaurishSharma.com
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Re: ALERT: Gmail Disaster: Reports Of Mass Email Deletions
oh boy got me heart attack!
nope everything is fine nothing is deleted!
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29-12-2006, 12:52 PM
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Rebooting
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Re: ALERT: Gmail Disaster: Reports Of Mass Email Deletions
No No No... I will be in trouble... lots of tons of important email is there in the Gmail for me... errrr... Hope those Gmail Dudes gets and kills that bug or what ever caused... and sooon... hmm... 900MB... thats my BOX size.. err...
man... may be i have to look for the outlook option if the news is true....  hmm tons of mails needs to be backed up...
thnx for the news
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29-12-2006, 12:58 PM
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Wise Old Owl
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Re: ALERT: Gmail Disaster: Reports Of Mass Email Deletions
@Saurav_cheeta, Backup your important email data. Better be on the safer side, than be sorry.
@Gary, You too take a backup in a CD/DVD. You can't rely on GMail or any other totally.
Nothing is perfect in this world!!
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29-12-2006, 01:00 PM
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Wise Old Owl
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: never land
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Re: ALERT: Gmail Disaster: Reports Of Mass Email Deletions
So guys
Backup disks are ready??
i use this quote for microsoft always
but now for google too...very sad
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29-12-2006, 10:32 PM
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In Shamful Mystery
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: delhi
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Re: ALERT: Gmail Disaster: Reports Of Mass Email Deletions
oh god!! i have so many songs on my gmail account....
i even back up my stuff on gmail...... i'll have to back up my backups.....
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29-12-2006, 10:41 PM
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Human Spambot
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Re: ALERT: Gmail Disaster: Reports Of Mass Email Deletions
yea i m on yahoo.looks like google are cleaning their servers. 
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29-12-2006, 11:06 PM
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Rebooting
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Re: ALERT: Gmail Disaster: Reports Of Mass Email Deletions
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@Saurav_cheeta, Backup your important email data. Better be on the safer side, than be sorry.
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lol...
BSNL went MBPS just in time ... lol.... 
yeah right... in any case u must have back up with computers... thats the main advantage of having a Computer.... u can backup and then restore to normal when necessary...
hmm.. i am downloading...
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29-12-2006, 11:35 PM
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Wise Old Owl
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Re: ALERT: Gmail Disaster: Reports Of Mass Email Deletions
I always use Outlook so I donot need to worry
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29-12-2006, 11:37 PM
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Right Off the Assembly Line
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Re: ALERT: Gmail Disaster: Reports Of Mass Email Deletions
oooo!!!! ****, All's my contact--no more.... why google why (
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29-12-2006, 11:40 PM
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Microsoft MVP
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Re: ALERT: Gmail Disaster: Reports Of Mass Email Deletions
If there is some problem in GMail, then why not use "Auto Forward" feature of GMail?
U can forward all incoming mails to any of ur other mail account, like Yahoo!, Hotmail, etc. 
It'll also make a copy at ur GMail account too.
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30-12-2006, 10:59 AM
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GaurishSharma.com
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Jaipur
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Re: ALERT: Gmail Disaster: Reports Of Mass Email Deletions
any back-up tools for mails available??
as i have very sensitive information stored up
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31-12-2006, 05:31 PM
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I am Optimus Prime
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Delhi, India
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Re: ALERT: Gmail Disaster: Reports Of Mass Email Deletions
Everybody getting paranoid here??? Relax....I know nothing can be perfect in this world....just backup using Outlook and be safe! And this happened only to 60-70 odd users and now their most data has been backed up....as claimed by google! And they and we hope it never happens again!
But when Google can delete its own blog ( http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/and-were-back.html)...Gmail kis khet ki mooli hai?
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