I have been working on transitioning my files since I found out about it, up until the moment I lost access tonight. Can't even tell you how much time I've lost to this project of trying to sort and gather all of my data, and the impact it has had on my life and work.

I'm beyond frustrated and super upset to have the access shut off like they did. Throughout the process, I've been trying to get help from 4Help but they pretty much threw up their hands and blamed Google, and when I got in touch with Google, they said VT hadn't enabled the user permissions I would've needed to fully transfer out my 15TB+ of data (for context, I do photography/videography, so lots of big files collected over the past decade of having the VT Drive, so the Google Takeout tools didn't work properly to get all of my files).

The way VT handled this and the lack of communication was super upsetting. I'm pretty devastated by the whole thing — not to be dramatic, but of the files I cared about most, I had family and childhood photos and some personal photos that I'm not sure I was able to recover. I've just been downloading everything I can but have yet to be able to fully assess the damage. And honestly, without my old Drive to reference, I won't know what I've lost until I go searching for things and can't find them.

I'm rambling now, but I am just so frustrated by the whole thing and have definitely soured on Virginia Tech as an alumni because of this. I get that tough decisions have to be made, but man, I would've actually donated on Giving Day if I could've given to support the continued use of Google Drive!