Here’s how I deleted a very good draft, by mistake. So Irresponsible.
So, if you’ve opened this article, there is a chance that you have no clue as to what that title means, and curiosity led you here.
And honestly, I am not sure if people will even open this post to read it. They might, or maybe they won’t.
Here’s the scene, I wrote a draft (which I thought was wonderful), then I do some stuff (we’ll talk about that) and everything was gone. I lost the article forever.
Back to the same procrastination business —
For the past 10 days, I’ve been in a ‘procrastination’ phase’, and obviously I’m not proud of it. But it’s the truth.
I did not write much; I was wasting time watching TV shows and random YouTube videos that I wouldn’t ever use in my life. Thus, 10 days passed by and I didn’t even realize it. I only got to know when I checked when I last posted (19th August 2023 and today is 29th August 2023).
I was filled with guilt, I really was. In my head, I wanted to work hard and get over this period of burning time. But for some reason, when I would be alone, I would not be able to control myself and I’d just do the same thing all over again.
Rinse and Repeat type of stuff. Again, I wasn’t proud of it.
Then again, I don’t think any of the drug addicts out there like what they’re doing.
Now that you have some context, let’s move on to the main story.
Main Google Doc Story —
After feeling the guilt, I told myself I’d write one article. And so, I did. The article was complete and ready to publish, it was sitting in my Google Doc.
At the same time, I was facing this issue about Gmail storage being full. I did not know what to delete, everything seemed so important.
Then I came across my google drive (conveniently, google doc files are stored in the drive btw), and I saw random backed up files which I hadn’t seen in years.
I told myself, “Heck yea, I found the root of the problem. If I delete all this, I should be good to go.”
After deleting a bunch of files, I realized that there were too many files, I did not want to spend the entire day going through each file. So, I did what any SMART person would do. I mass-deleted the files, a lot of them.
Also know that while I was deleting all these files, I did not know the google doc, sheets and other files were stored in the drive. I guess I can be called a ‘newbie’, which is ironic because I’m from the ‘tech generation’… you know…
I saw a lot of free space on my account, and I was happy. “Finally, I don’t have to pay any extra money for storage”, I said. Little did I know that this was going to hit me harder than Miley Cyrus’ Wrecking Ball.
Two days later, I open my Google Doc web app to access the article I had written a while back and to my surprise, it was missing.
I panicked, I searched everywhere, went to Google sheet to find my doc (lmao, noob).
Sat there at my table for a solid 10 minutes and then it clicked, I had the “aha!” moment. It all made sense.
When mass-deleting all my Google Drive files, I must have deleted the Google Doc by mistake! I can’t confirm it, but looking at my recent activity, it makes the most sense.
If it’s not that, then probably some alien stole it from my laptop.
Life Lesson —
Lesson learnt — Don’t mass delete your Google Account, because there’s probably some recent and important stuff in there which you might delete by mistake.
I feel like a lot of people might have NOT gone through this before, let me know what you think in the comments below.
And if you’ve experienced this before, then also comment down below and lemme know what you did different or similar. Would love to hear from y’all readers.
Until then!
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