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Originally Posted by theducks
free file sync is amazingly fast.
I had been using Synctoy, but it would not run on my new Dell because it wanted an older dot net than is available from MS. FFS is ~10x faster.
Setting a sync pair is pretty straight forward. Choose the source folder, choose the Target. Set the sync to MIRROR (2-way will corrupt the Library over time)
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The thing about cloud corruption is that it can be very gradual/subtle. you go along thinking all is good and that your 10,000 calibre files are all there, in the correctly named subfolders, until one day a book format is missing or invalid. Then you open the bonnet and run checks, but you are outside the 15 / 30 day rollbacks that the free cloud plans provide....
its not just a calibre thing. I remember when I was trying to upload 10+ years of family photos to google and to amazon clouds.
I had the official sync tools and was doing them in batches, but about 1 per 100 would randomly fail to upload. Ok if you spotted it, and it would upload just fine as a single manual upload. The moral is than you can't /shouldn't 100% trust the tools they give you. both amazon and google products were awful actually, left to their own devices they were constantly starting over and re syncing previous uploads. eventually I dropped the whole idea of letting the amazon/ google desktop sync products run things by keeping a local drive folder in permanent sync. I reverted to : open a browser for the cloud drive , drop in a sub folder, check for errors, rinse, repeat
Also, I had many many Gbs of photos all organised into yy-mm sub folders- and I could see that structure reflected in google drive ( taking advantage of the unlimited photos storage deal)
Sometime later google did one of their (in)famous overhauls, threw google drive and google photos into a blender, and all the photos went into one ginormous photos folder, managed by tags, not by folder names. Maybe they are all in there,somewhere, but the option to download a specific yymm subfolder back to desktop has vanished.
tl:dr don't trust cloud products to provide long term storage
I trust dropbox more than most, but I stick to the free tiers. Because one accidental failure to pay the paid plan monthly bill ( because your card expires or your bank has a glitch) could result in a mass delete.