Yup, Scrivener saves data locally. Ironically, you should never use it on a cloud drive, because apparently it can lead to data corruption. I sync my Scrivener projects across multiple computers with Git instead, because that at least ensures the files are at a consistent state.
If I had to guess, what probably triggered the ToS violation was transferring the content the day before, maybe the method or client used to do the transfer was too aggressive.
If I had to guess, there’s more to this story than they’re telling us. I’ve literally never heard of anyone losing access to their personal, legal files on Google drive because it violates their ToS. Google is a shit company and should be avoided, but this story just sounds like rage bait and maybe even just “organic” advertising for Scrivener.
But again, that story above makes sense as to why it was initially triggered (i.e. Google’s automated child porn detection bots flagged the picture and account). Was it done wrongfully? Sure, that seems to be the case. But, that’s not really relevant to the original post since that’s not what happened to this person. I feel like we’d be seeing way more news about authors having their books randomly locked out from them because Google just randomly decided to enforce a specific ToS violation on their account.
They don’t. But they also don’t care if they make mistakes, and since you aren’t paying for a bussiness account, they aren’t gonna listen to your appeals.
Again it was just a guess, but why would a company like Google just randomly freeze all the data for this one person for no reason? Feels like there has to be a cause and effect, and the only info we know of is that the backup to scrivener the day prior. Obviously they never had a problem before to amass all the documents in there, so what just happened to get banned?
I don’t know the total file size or the tool used to pull the content from Google Drive. It could be that the behavior looked like file sharing to Google’s servers and the policy is to shut it down while they investigate.
Maybe they use dynamic IP and they got unlucky and ISP assigned someone else’s IP address (maybe someone doing piracy or maybe a scammer) and a big corp like Google won’t care if they got the right person and just assume its the same person as the person previously assigned that same IP.
So he just moves the files from one online storage to another? How stupid can one be?
Is Scrivener online storage? I don’t think it is, but I don’t use it so I can’t be sure.
Scrivener is an offline, desktop app. So the files will be on their hard drive.
Yup, Scrivener saves data locally. Ironically, you should never use it on a cloud drive, because apparently it can lead to data corruption. I sync my Scrivener projects across multiple computers with Git instead, because that at least ensures the files are at a consistent state.
OP has moved files there, so even if it is not a general file storage, OP uses it as one for his texts.
If I had to guess, what probably triggered the ToS violation was transferring the content the day before, maybe the method or client used to do the transfer was too aggressive.
If I had to guess, there’s more to this story than they’re telling us. I’ve literally never heard of anyone losing access to their personal, legal files on Google drive because it violates their ToS. Google is a shit company and should be avoided, but this story just sounds like rage bait and maybe even just “organic” advertising for Scrivener.
Yeah, not a lot of details in this case. Unfortunately though, Google has previously banned accounts that don’t contain any illegal content and appealing it is a fools errand: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveillance-toddler-photo.html
But again, that story above makes sense as to why it was initially triggered (i.e. Google’s automated child porn detection bots flagged the picture and account). Was it done wrongfully? Sure, that seems to be the case. But, that’s not really relevant to the original post since that’s not what happened to this person. I feel like we’d be seeing way more news about authors having their books randomly locked out from them because Google just randomly decided to enforce a specific ToS violation on their account.
Google doesn’t even care about hosting pirated content on Drive as long as you’re not sharing it to others.
I doubt they do, too. I’m just pointing out how ridiculous the picture above sounds without knowing the full story.
They don’t. But they also don’t care if they make mistakes, and since you aren’t paying for a bussiness account, they aren’t gonna listen to your appeals.
That makes zero sense. Why would a company like Google care about a few MB or less of text files?
Again it was just a guess, but why would a company like Google just randomly freeze all the data for this one person for no reason? Feels like there has to be a cause and effect, and the only info we know of is that the backup to scrivener the day prior. Obviously they never had a problem before to amass all the documents in there, so what just happened to get banned?
I don’t know the total file size or the tool used to pull the content from Google Drive. It could be that the behavior looked like file sharing to Google’s servers and the policy is to shut it down while they investigate.
Guess we should jump to conclusions then!
Maybe they use dynamic IP and they got unlucky and ISP assigned someone else’s IP address (maybe someone doing piracy or maybe a scammer) and a big corp like Google won’t care if they got the right person and just assume its the same person as the person previously assigned that same IP.
Agreed
Two independent cloud storage providers is pretty good?
How about having backups on physical media at home?