IceDrive lost thousands of my files without any notification. Their support escalated my ticket, then ghosted me for 2 weeks before closing it. I’m sharing a script to check if your files are actually backed up: https://github.com/rupumped/NicksAPPS/blob/main/Python/IceDriveVerification.py. Note that it requires argparse.
Usage: python IceDriveVerification.py C:\Documents C:\Photos C:\Projects --backup-root I:\
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I don’t know if this is a case of bit rot, but just a heads-up OP: that script won’t detect this category of failure. You need a solution that computes checksums of the backed files to really be sure their content is integral.