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this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2025
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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
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.