Where has Google timeline gone?
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silverfoxcc

Original Poster:

8,004 posts

162 months

Tuesday 24th June
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Just had a kook at ny google inbox and all my timeline .essages have vanished
Any idea what has happened? and can they be recovered

ARHarh

4,891 posts

124 months

Tuesday 24th June
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google have been sending emails saying they will stop the timeline stuff if you don't sign up to it. They have been giving at least 6 months warning of this. So you may want to google how to sign up ti it, not sure if that will reinstate any old info though.

Liamjrhodes

317 posts

158 months

Tuesday 24th June
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there was an email circulated a while back from google saying that lots of timeline data was deleted and lost forever.

sgrimshaw

7,547 posts

267 months

Tuesday 24th June
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Just discovered that Timeline is not available on browsers


the-norseman

14,520 posts

188 months

Tuesday 24th June
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Only available on mobile now which is annoying.

BritishBlitz87

728 posts

65 months

Tuesday 24th June
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yopzetta said:
Google really has to be one of the most dhead companies going.
Not surprising considering they got rid of their "don't be evil" motto six years ago

eein

1,508 posts

282 months

Tuesday 24th June
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This change wasn't Google's decision - it was a consequence of legislation. I can't remember if it is the stuff around what data you hold about people or where you hold, or what you can use it for, but that largely necessitated this change.

I've moved it to my mobile, but it's very hard to understand if the source data is backed up and where and how one would re-load it on to a new device.

Time4another

413 posts

20 months

Tuesday 24th June
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eein said:
I've moved it to my mobile, but it's very hard to understand if the source data is backed up and where and how one would re-load it on to a new device.
Recently renewed my phone. All of the timeline stuff loaded onto the new device. Believe it was through my google account.

silverfoxcc

Original Poster:

8,004 posts

162 months

Tuesday 24th June
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it is in my mobile that it has vanished from,!

silverfoxcc

Original Poster:

8,004 posts

162 months

Tuesday 24th June
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Well yesterday it wasnt there.... just looked again and its back??????????

snuffy

11,551 posts

301 months

Friday 27th June
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the-norseman said:
Only available on mobile now which is annoying.
It's beyond annoying. I really liked looking at timelone on my PC and now i can't.

untakenname

5,159 posts

209 months

Friday 27th June
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Anyone else noticed that lots of days the time line doesn't seem to be as accurate, used to have granular detail at street level but now it's just straight lines?