That’s what the backup hard drive is for. Honestly, someone else’s server can fail or be hacked or be sold or terms can change or it simply become inaccessible to you if your internet service goes out. Except for when Apple or MS does an update and hijacks my files I don’t use cloud storage at all.
Tbf I do recommend ssd's more than hard drives. Luckily I haven't lost any super important data yet but I back up the most important stuff on an ssd. My dad did lose a bunch of stuff when a harddrive failed, though it was fortunately not too important.
We treat this technology as infallible, but they are all prone to failure, for no apparent reasons. I have begun to temper my expectations regarding technology. It has been over sold.
True. But after working for 8 years in a company that stored all data on physical media, things got super tedious burning discs and hard drives all of the time. Wasn't until covid when they finally switched to cloud storage which saved a ton of time.
Right on! Something I've worked on, especially in the last two years with life-altering medical diagnoses for my husband & me. We'll be okay, but certainly a wake-up call for what matters most.
Honestly, there is nothing in the cloud that warrants me paying extra money. I would never have an important document on my phone in the first place. If there is anything I don't want to lose then I secure it separately.
While we're talking about "warrents" LOL. US LEOs must have a warrent to search your hard drive but not your cloud. For me it's not the $$ it's the lack of privacy.
I would manage hoarding g in clients by giving having them swap everything out 1:1. Anything new requires something going away. That was the first phase, anyway.
Reading this thread to get some good advice on how to do it because I've tried and tried and tried and frankly, I'd like to extract *everything* from their fake fucking cloud. It's not a cloud. It's a huge energy and water sucking data centre.
Easier said than done. Google for instance doesn't make getting your stuff out of their cloud easy or simple. I had to pull over 300 gigabytes of photos and videos from Mrs Wyrm's account and that was a huge PITA.
I literally just had to do this and am disgusted at how hard they made it! They literally disabled the direct file transfer option on the phone. Now I'm thinking about moving away from Google products!
Yes! And if you set up a little home network, you have all the inter-device operability of the cloud solution at 500x the speed. Or depending on your archiving requirements, look at M-Discs.
I hate the "cloud" marketing scam. Feels like insult to our intelligence. It is a larger physical datastore that obtains more of your data on a shared server which can then be accessed if/when security is breached.
Some are raising really good points about the practicality of this advice and offering alternative strategies. I’m really glad we can have an open dialogue on this issue.
So, I tried that recently and it's really bloody hard to find how I can clear 100GB but when breaks down all your files, its not 10x 10GB videos to clear, it's actually 100,000x 1MB photos and it's just too hard.
The problem isn't large files, it's tens of thousands of small files. That's harder to sort through and cloud storage providers don't have simple tools to group them up.
It pisses me off... I don't wanna use icloud for everything. A few configurations, some notes I keep for myself... and I've turned 'store photos in cloud' like twenty times now and they keep silently turning it back on again, and it comes as a surprise when I start getting cloud-full notices.
Yeah they turn it back on every few years for me. Usually after major updates to software, and always after device changes. It has become one of my traditions to start new hardware by slashing cloud storage again. It's bloody annoying, but hey, at least machines don't need a boot disk any more...
Only Contacts and Notes go in cloud for me too … everything else, I manage myself.
I have turned off “store photos in cloud” and it hasn’t turned back on for me till now, but I can understand your frustration too.
Yeah, you'd think it'd stay off... but whatever it is i'm doing that they're taking as implicit permission to ignore my settings is ... as yet undiscerned.
Was about to say, that's exactly what Microsoft does. Update? Turn all the shit you switched off back on and not tell you. I had no idea my one drive was backing up all my media WITHOUT ASKING ME.
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Old stuff - mainly emails
I wanna keep all the good fanart I save mwehehhehe
Sir, are you trying to give me a panic attack? Sort through my digital hoard? As a dragon, that is just an unacceptable solution.
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I honestly can't imagine letting the cloud store my personal photos. It feels... icky. Don't know why.
Doint feed your data to the void. HOARD!!!!!
Or several
Once they have you, barriers to your data keep going up and up along with the prices
You can often get way more storage for way less money that way.
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Music 310 GB
Downloads 110 GB
Rule 34 Gru from Despicable Me 15 TB
Videos 900 GB
somebody who is good at cloud storage please help me organize this, my video project is dying
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I have turned off “store photos in cloud” and it hasn’t turned back on for me till now, but I can understand your frustration too.
Opt out is bullshit. It should always be opt in.