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A bit of a cautionary tale for those of us using the cloud
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Posted by steveylang
Aug 5, 2016 at 03:26 AM
This reminds me of when my Gmail account was suspended due to suspicious activity (or something?!?)
I tried every normal channel of communication, but got no response. I finally started googling for Google employee names and emails, and called a Google employee. He was a bit miffed to take my random customer support call, but was sympathetic and took my info and promised to look into it.
A day later, my gmail was restored. Phew!!
Posted by steveylang
Aug 5, 2016 at 03:29 AM
Speaking of Dropbox, the one cloud service I really rely upon (besides Dropbox) is Workflowy, which fortunately has an auto-backup to Dropbox feature.
dan7000 wrote:
One nice thing about cloud services that sync to a folder on local
>devices (e.g. Dropbox, Evernote, Tresorit) is that if the service
>suddenly disappears you always have the local copy. This is a reminder
>to me not to use Dropbox’s “selective sync” on all my devices—at
>least one device always needs to sync all of my dropbox folders.
>Selective sync is also a much-requested feature for Evernote but these
>stories remind me that the feature comes with a big drawback: at least
>as it is now, I always have a full copy of all my Evernote notes on all
>my Windows machines.
Posted by Hugh
Aug 7, 2016 at 10:50 AM
Someone who’s involved in front of and behind the scenes in software curation and whose views I tend to trust once wrote to me:
“Yes, synchronization is hard… The Internet isn’t nearly as reliable as most people think, and synchronization is ideally suited to demonstrate that.”
I try to back-up accordingly.
Posted by Dr Andus
Sep 17, 2016 at 10:57 PM
And here is a cautionary tale for those not using the cloud:
“Writer rushes into burning building to save two finished novels”
“An author in New Orleans has rushed into his burning home to save a laptop, which contained his two finished novels.”
Posted by xtabber
Sep 18, 2016 at 05:25 PM
In a universe long ago and far away (think tape!), I taught a consulting course which covered, among other things, protecting critical computer data. Two of the bullet points were:
1 - There are only two kinds of data users, those who have lost data and those who will lose data.
2 – If data doesn’t exist In at least three separate places, it might not exist at all.
The cloud hasn’t changed a whole lot in that regard.