Google Buzz's last-gasp addition to your Google Drive

<b>This QuickTip is about a file that Google Buzz is going to put into your Google Drive, as part of it's final turn-off routine, for all Buzz accounts that haven't yet been deleted.</b><br /><br /><a name="more"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_PU7Vj7d4VOpQN_8DH5JBRBuEXtI2mYy09XjWYngPyRusB-eDJVolUkU7SH32FXLP0pJDXAtGBJrNPSNkoAuuXijUxNhQoPZWYzveiibL9S5IZnlhu0hZSXQPyxFgFuiK6XzJNujDJfwV/s217/quick-tips-blogger-hints-and-tips.png.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /><img alt="quick-tips logo" border="0" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_PU7Vj7d4VOpQN_8DH5JBRBuEXtI2mYy09XjWYngPyRusB-eDJVolUkU7SH32FXLP0pJDXAtGBJrNPSNkoAuuXijUxNhQoPZWYzveiibL9S5IZnlhu0hZSXQPyxFgFuiK6XzJNujDJfwV/s217/quick-tips-blogger-hints-and-tips.png.png" title="Quick tips for Blogger Users - especially about how Blogger works with other popular tools" width="200" /></a></div><br />Google Buzz was one of Google's early-and-short-lived <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/04/linking-your-blog-to-social-networks.html">social networking</a> attempts, but was used by some bloggers looking to promote their blogs.<br /><br />It was closed down in October 2011<br /><br />I haven't seen it published in any of the Google blogs that I follow, but recently I was sent an email saying that t<span class="c3">he last step in the close-down will happen o</span><span class="c3">n or after 17 July 201</span><span class="c3">3, when Google </span><span class="c3">will save a copy of the Buzz posts from any remaining active Buzz accounts to the account-holders </span><span class="c8 c6"><a class="c0" href="https://drive.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Drive</a></span><span class="c3">. </span><br /><div class="c2"><span class="c3"><br /></span></div><div class="c2"><span class="c3">There will be two types of file, and the files won't</span><span class="c3"> count against your storage limits.   They say:</span></div><div class="c2"><span class="c3"></span></div><ol class="c9" start="1"><li class="c4 c2"><span class="c3">The first will be private, only accessible to you, and have a snapshot of the </span><span class="c3">Google Buzz </span><span class="c3">public and private posts that</span><span class="c3"> you wrote</span><span class="c3">.</span></li><li class="c2 c4"><span class="c3">The second will have </span><span class="c3">a copy of </span><span class="c3">your</span><span class="c3"> Google Buzz public posts</span><span class="c3">. I</span><span class="c3">t will be visible to </span><span class="c3">anyone with the link, unless you change it later,</span><span class="c3"> </span><span class="c3">and may appear in</span><span class="c3"> search results and on your </span><span class="c8 c6"><a class="c0" href="http://profiles.google.com/me/about" target="_blank">Google Profile</a></span><span class="c3"> (</span><span class="c3">if you've linked to your Buzz posts).</span><span class="c6">   A</span><span class="c3 c7">ny existing links to your Google Buzz content will redirect to this </span><span class="c3 c7">file</span><span class="c6">.</span></li></ol><br />Something to be aware of, if you used Buzz to make controversial comments:   Comments that you made on other users' posts will be saved to those users' files. After the file-download described here id done, the other user can change the sharing settings of those files, if they choose to do so. And if they do, and if you have commented on another person's private post, that person <b><i>could</i></b> choose to make that post and its comments public.   To remove the chance of that happening, you could <a href="https://profiles.google.com/me/deletebuzz" target="_blank">delete</a> all your Buzz content well before 17 July 2013<br /><div><br />The Buzz-download Google Drive files will only contain comments from users who had enabled Google Buzz.  They won't include any comments that you deleted before Google moved your data to your Google Drive.</div>

Google Buzz's last-gasp addition to your Google Drive

This QuickTip is about a file that Google Buzz is going to put into your Google Drive, as part of it's final turn-off routine, for all B...

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