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Something is up with Google Legacy
& I just get giddy thinking about it ![]()
Some of u boys already know wt it is...
Its where files go to swim.. like huge number of them ![]()
But no one actually knows how it will be implemented.... who knows whether it wud be a boom or a bust ![]()
as dickens put it : we have everything before us or we have nothing before us; we will all go to data heaven or may be data purgatory if not hell
I wonder how it will all play out ...


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The end is nigh.
hey @raza19 , no idea what google legacy is but im glad to see you
@emgh can you ban this guy he's talking about liking google and stuff and its hurting my soul
The very opposite. Lo & Behold the years of waiting..... The pioneers in making.... Ur Patience ur virtue has paid off.... Google has decided to bless the family of legacy.....
Sing my children, for it is time to rejoice...
& Don't regret if u let ur legacy accounts expire... I lost many but I still have a good dozen left
My dear Bruddah... I have always had mixed feelings about Google..... I can go on and on how many times it has f*d my plans... but still.... android is better than i/mac/os
albeit topic for a different time
listen are you gonna cost google lots of money? because im all for that.
if you store petabyte or two of adult entertainment there i might even buy you a beer
Don't drink & drive please.
Uhm, what is the blessing?
I had legacy, but now it is google workspace, am I still included?
It's not like I had a choice of leaving legacy, they were like upgrade to workspace or lose it all.
When they were trying to be dicks.
However, they ended up being not dicks and changed workspace to free.
I kinda feel that way right now 😕
yeh been through the whole ordeal... in anticipation of legacy's termination i shifted everything off takeout , deleted everything and then they said they changed their mind 🤦
but the big reveal is ....
Google is introducing ...
POOLED STORAGE to Legacy accounts...
The implication is huge with my 50 or in some cases 1000 account Google legacy leftovers
Ah, I see pooled storage is a blessing. So many TB of space available to my account now.
Thats 4.5 TB for u with those 300 users, rejoice , rejoice ......
God must love me.
Not fully implemented yet though, goes live on 1st of May
how much a $?
Try to Hear it like an echo
Its free, free, free, free, free, free, free.
Free, that's the best part.
Some good karma finally paying off. I wonder what am I to do with my 15TB Google account 🤔 I am gonna store my photos, my family's photos, my neighbors photos, the neighbor's neighbors photos.... hmmm
you what? and just checking, i can't make more of these accounts and fill them with random bytes then delete everything then fill it again right?
and maybe automate the process with a couple of ipv6 subnets and let it run until they block me
For sure. We deserve it. It does make me rethink life decisions... You know... When I let some domains lapse, attached to legacy accounts, back in the day.
But you know... So much free storage. Count your blessings. I'll be storing feetpics probably. And UNIXSOCKS pics. If that ever goes mainstream, 15TB is nothing.
Long time ago in a galaxy far away Google was a good humble organization and they gave free Google workspace accounts if u brought ur domain. They were so lenient at first that they wud give u as many users as u liked just by asking u to put a number in a textbox
then they got a bit greedy and started limiting it to 50 users, eventually 10 & then krampus took over and they killed the free plan..... but deep down their dark hearts they had some ray of light and they chose to let those old free accounts live.......
They called them Legacy accounts & we are their caretakers, their overseers, their wardens....
Well put. Couldn't have worded it better.
that's some poetic delivery
I can tell you are excited
This is why we can't have nice things.
You absolutely could.
i'll give my left nut to hurt google even a tiny bit, i dont particularly enjoy its existence on this planet
Yeah lol typical google, every time I come back to some old NodeJS script and try to run it, oops something got deprecated, fuck you davide, no run for you today. It's all a "living standard" of sorts.
I got a free legacy with 2000 accounts (15gb each), then moved to free Google Workspace with "only" 300 accounts (30gb each), hope they won't discontinue it
You should get help for that. I'd prefer to do violence to those "I don't particularly enjoy it's existence on this planet", not to myself.
This sounds great in theory but may be hard in practice
Pooled storage limit is 15GB per user for G Suite legacy accounts and 30GB per user Google Workspace Business Starter accounts but problem is the storage is based on existing users not the user limit
Google is strict with its terms for free G Suite accounts so I try to use very lightly and accounts have low number of users activated, even the Business Starter ones with 300 user license
If you have a legacy account with 1,000 user license and want 15 TB of storage space you would have to set up all users and risk Google asking why do you have so many users for a free personal account
But if you do want to do this and set up dummy users for more storage, I read it can be done quickly using csv file in admin console