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

The actual problem here isn't cloud, but the fact that Microsoft Office's 'save' UI/UX is such a shitshow, it's completely unintuitive as to where a document is being saved. We have a massive problem with this at work, because people frequently accidentally save stuff to OneDrive, rather than on their local PCs, and then completely lose the document.

[–] FinanceFit6474@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

And this kind of product is being delivered to the newest generation of customers on the company dime of one of the richest developers in the computing business. If that’s not a cryptic message from developers overtop the already extremely capable working machines environment hackers take advantage of every day, what’s in it for the middle men using this kind of garbage software? Surely they must get some compensation out of it! Sometimes I just think it’s gates telling all those people off that didn’t trust in the method. Like yeah, you use that broken shitty software. Go ahead!

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

Its mainly because Office now defaults its save location to Onedrive. The only real benefit I get is the auto save every 3 seconds. Other than that, I always try and point it to local. However, at work we're migrating to sharepoint so eventually Onedrive save will always be encouraged.