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Originally Posted by Katsunami
First, I'll never trust any cloud service to exist indefinitely; in the very least, prices, conditions, or specifications will change, and not always for the better.
Second... I think many people can get into the 'Where's my stuff?!?!" problem. There are people on MR who only shop at Amazon, or Kobo, and keep all their books there, but I shop everywhere. Amazon, a few Kobo stores, Delphi, Angry Robot, Baen, Diesel and Books on Board while they existed, eBooks.com, Feedbooks, and so on, so my books are all over the place. Even if I wanted to, I wouldn't be able to find them all. Thus, I download them, unDRM, and keep local copies. I don't really care what happens to the online versions.
How many clouds can people have? Dropbox, Copy, Box, Creative Cloud, Apple Cloud, Samsung Cloud, and others I don't even know about probably. Then your personal files could become splintered throughout the internet.
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Originally Posted by Tarana
You do have points and I would also like to point out to others - one day, you may have a stroke or memory loss. Are you going to remember (a) where your stuff is (b) the link to get there and (c) the password to access? My family member experienced this. Some stuff he has never been able to access again. The inability to remember how to get to something has probably preyed upon him more than the actual value of the stuff he lost.
My use of Dropbox is almost entirely transferring stuff to others rather than storage. I have a small storage folder full of certain emagazines to be shared among family, but that's the extent of it. I knew of a couple of people who were devastated when their cloud company shut up shop overnight a couple of years ago. That WAS their backup. At least COPY is warning their customers in advance.
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I have DropBox and OneDrive (and Google Drive for some Google stuff, such as my custom maps, but I won't count that one for now).
OneDrive is my main storage box. But OneDrive is still missing one thing that DropBox has: shared folders. At least not in the way DropBox has, where I can add a file to a folder and it appears with all my shared persons. Locally. I use it a lot to share stuff with my mother and my husband.
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Originally Posted by dickloraine
Doesn't help with a), but a password manager helps with b) and c).
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And my keepass file is also shared across many devices using a cloud service and I told my mother to do the same. I refreshed my Galaxy Note the other day and the first thing I installed was Keepas, so I didn't have to keep on typing my email address (which is 60 or so characters
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