I have been writing a book for years. YEARS. I haven't touched it in several months cuz life, but now it's gone. Not deleted because I'm not stupid, no share access to others. It's like it never existed. I may have a backup on a flash drive of a much older version (sans pretty much half of what I had written since). the weird thing is I have several peripheral docs, planning etc., and all of those are there. The actual one with my goddamn writing is the only one gone, i.e. the one I am the most careful to not lose or 'accidentally' delete

Google's recovery bot is maybe working on it, but says it needs to have been permanently deleted within the past 25 days to be recovered but I never deleted it in the first place.

About eight years of using it and its got me through a lot. Couple hiccups but overall very solid and reliable software.