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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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I swear, I'm NEVER using ANYTHING cloud again. (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by neon1415official@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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I recently downloaded Microsoft Powerpoint on my Mac. I found out that when I edit my presentation it will actually autosave it to cloud, just like the web app. It was working well for a while. But today I closed my window somehow hours of my progress was gone. Turns out that I ran out of the "free 5gb of storage" and I ran out of storage without noticing it, so it did not save. I'm never going for cloud EVER again. We all make mistakes, and this one taught me a lesson not to use cloud storage. BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP GUYS

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[–] BenThereOrBenSquare@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

What a weird all-or-nothing lesson to take from this. No, cloud saving is excellent. You just have to know what you're working with.

The real lesson is to not just assume anything's saved. Verify it's saved.

[–] TastySpare@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

not just assume anything's saved. Verify it's saved.

Same goes for your backup backup backup, btw...

[–] dlarge6510@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Ah yes. The "You are holding it wrong" response.

[–] neon1415official@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

yeah, you're probably right. I was just a bit upset that this happened

guess I'll focus on making sure everything's saved.

[–] dlarge6510@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

No, poster is incorrect. It is bad design on Microsofts part to have such an issue.

If something cant be save, you, the user, should be notified at the time you click save. It ain't rocket science and is fundamentally basic software design that should have been flagged up during the QA process that Microsoft no longer bother to employ.

[–] dlarge6510@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

No, poster is incorrect. It is bad design on Microsofts part to have such an issue.

[–] king313@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

That’s why I hate the push towards cloud services.