An estimated total of 150,000 Gmail users have reportedly lost their Gmail messages, contacts, chats and everything else over the weekend. There is a Gmail bug in there, that has been resetting several accounts, making them to be new users, complete with the Gmail welcome messages! So a few of the unlucky users have been reporting, saying that their precious messages, attachments, as well as Google Chat logs had gone.
Google has responded and said that a Gmail bug is responsible for completely resetting accounts. In fact, affected users received a welcome message as if they had just created their account when they opened their accounts.
But there’s good news here. The way Google is explaining it on its Apps Status Dashboard: “Google engineers are working to restore full access. Affected users may be temporarily unable to sign in while we repair their accounts.”
So maybe this is not so bad after all. As long as Google restores the messages, all we had was a big scare. Will Google restore all the messages? We’ve contacted Google, and will let you know when we hear back.
However, as we speak Google has been announcing this: “Google Mail service has already been restored for some users, and we anticipate a resolution for all users in the near futere. Please note this time frame is an estimate and may possibly alter.”
This issue affects less than 0.08% of the Google Mail userbase. Just lets hope you are not among this tiny (?) user group! Was your Gmail account reset by this nasty bug?
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This is bad. Hope Google will rectify this soon.
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Yep, this is probably the nastiest “Google Bug” that we have witnessed recently.
Though they are saying that they are working on bringing back “everything” for all who are affected, it might not be as easy as it appears! Fingers crossed.
Orgarnizations the use Gmail and Outlook should take a look at EdgeSafe PST2PST Backup (http://www.datamills.com) that is able to backup the PST file automatically onto the organization’s network.
Very shocking, I’m lucky that it didn’t happen with my gmail account.
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There is a free application for Mac, PC and Linux called Gmail Backup that you could use. However, the site is down right now, thanks to this Gmail Bug as tons of people must be heading to this site to take backup of their own Gmail accounts.
very true and I’m one of them.
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I wasn’t expecting this from Gmail but this happens sometime even with the most reliable services.
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Ouch, maybe they messed it up while changing their algorithm that everyone is talking about on the webmasters forums.
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I guess not! An algorithm change in their “search algorithm” has nothing to do with their email service.
Hi,
I’m very lucky, my account wasn’t affected and sincerely speaking, I haven’t heard about this thing about Gmail before, it’s the first time I heard about this. I’m very happy that I just got away with all my messages safe, I can’t imagine how bad was it going to be without my e-mails. Thanks for sharing !
Best regards,
Maria
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Yes, very lucky indeed! As a matter of fact, I would be doomed if it had happened to my account
Not good to hear about serious gmail bugs.
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I am very lucky not affected to my account also I never heard about thos issue
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