Important files will be gone in February 2024 when Google removes them from Files for Android

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• RainfallSonata@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is a “feature” that was only ever available in India. It still sucks, but that’s a pretty rage-baity headline.

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  • Microw@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ah yes, only in the country with the world’s biggest population and an android market share of 95%

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    • sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      they should have specified in the title anyway.

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s also really disingenuous to show a picture of a passport. Because people’s only copy of their passport is a JPG inside Files?

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    • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean I’ve used the photo of my passport I’ve had favourited on my phone whenever my passport number/a scan of my passport has been needed for about the last 10 years, so it’s at least an inconvenience to just delete them rather than moving them to documents/files or whatever

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• blackfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They are deleting the files instead of moving them out of the feature they automatically included. Man Google just keep sucking.

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  • jungle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, well, at least it only affects important official documents. /s

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  • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Don’t Be Evil”

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• _number8_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  remember when internet companies were cool and benevolent?

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  • WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No? Because despite what they said they were still companies. All those words about not being evil, etc, etc, etc were just PR, nothing else.

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    • Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      In the early days of the internet a lot of these companies were entirely made of nerds who just wanted to create cool shit.

      But as they got bigger they all went the same way.

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• KISSmyOS@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Notice to users: Please do the needful!

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• JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So what, Indian users had their important files automatically marked as important, and then deleted? How is this a feature and not the opposite?

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• SSUPII@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Literally just keep all saved files and make it manual for users to set their important files. These companies have no clue on how to keep any app.

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• Feliberto@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  WTF? I’m not sure if my files will get deleted. I wish google were a bit less evil and notify me of what i’m getting deleted.

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