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Important files will be gone in February 2024 when Google removes them from Files for Android (www.ghacks.net)
submitted 10 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

According to the article this is a feature that finds “important” documents. Like auto-starring files.

[–] sajran@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, so basically Google invented a feature that finds your important files and deletes them. The future is here!

Of course I'm exaggerating for humoristic effect but in all seriousness I think the whole action is extremely poorly executed. I would be surprised if there weren't some cases of people actually losing something important because of this.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 10 points 10 months ago

Oh wait

Particularly worrying for users is that Google plans to delete any file that is inside the Important tab by February 15, 2024. Users who don't want to lose access to these files need to move them before the shutdown data.

They’re literally deleting them what the fuck?