What? They've funded side projects in addition to Google X doing there thing for many years. You think the CFO gets to tell the CEO what to do? She brought in meaningful changes (namely, not throwing money around like it's nothing). But trying to weirdly give her credit for this being a non-Alphabet company is... weird.
I synched about 50GB to google drive and discovered that it started silently eliminating some of my files. The eliminated files weren't found on google dive's bin, but were in my local mac's trash without any matadata or folder info so I couldn't put them back into their original folders. Good thing I had a backup of all these files. Their synch algorithm seems messed up, it also fails to synch every 2 hours on mac.
I've since switched to dropbox, it is worth the extra cost.
The same thing happened to me. Google Drive began silently deleting any duplicate files it found in any of my directories, leaving just one original. A lot of my projects use the same web framework, hence my projects were all broken. Restoring them via their UI wasn't possible either. I stopped using Drive after that.
