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How right you are Gloria. Cloud storage, no matter what they call it, comes and
goes.
So do genealogy programs. More and more people are going to the Internet for
research. Not everything is there. Yes, there is more research available then
when I started, back in 1975, but there is a LOT that has never and will never
be digitized and placed on the Internet.
Marie
Marie Varrelman Melchiori, Certified Genealogist Emeritus
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In a message dated 7/31/2018 12:26:42 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
Gloria, you are getting some of this information mixed up. Very easy to do,
with the way people talk about these services, and how they use them. Don' t
listen to all that garbage! Most people really don't know what they are doing.
There are many different companies offering 'clous storage' services. Yes, most
will want some payment; that is how they make a living. But you need to
remember NOT to rely on the cloud as a safe place to store anything!! It is all
temporary, 'in the clouds', and can disappear quickly. The best you shold think
of these things is that they are temporary. When you need something quickly,
they are great. But not a permanent solution.
No one can say that anything is better than anything else. Everyone likes
certain things, and others do not! Study each one and see if any of them will
suit your needs. My needs are going to be different than yours. What I like may
not work for you! YOU have to decide.
You really need an external hard drive -- they are so cheap these days -- and
even make two backup copies. You just can't be too careful. All it takes is ONE
lost file to make you wish you had done a proper back up!!
Dropbox is for sharing files. Yes, you can put files there and 'share' them
with yourself in the future, but that is taking a risk. It is okay for sharing
with friends (I do that a lot) but the files all come and go. It is all
temporary. Nothing is permanent there!! Keep that in mind.
You can buy some storage space on the 'net somewhere -- that is called 'in the
cloud' -- and that is only as reliable as the company you have a deal with, but
it could just vanish one day. Don't rely on anyone, other than yoursel. And
even then, I don't trust my own memory, so I use an external drive. If anything
happens to my computer -- and it has -- I still have my data that took years to
collect. I can't risk losing all of it!! Don't trust any thing other than your
own devices. These have been known to fail too .. so make two backup copies --
just in case. (You can delete one file later on) Best to be over-protected
than to have nothing at all.
G
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2018 at 6:41 AM
From: "Gloria DeSousa" <[email protected]>
To: "Legacy User Group" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Cloud Storage
Has anyone had experience using Evernote for their cloud storage? My genealogy
library recommended the free version of Evernote over Dropbox but I haven't
found it easy to use. I gave up using it last year, and can't remember why
exactly. I rely on Carbonite for everything on my laptop. Is DropBox better
than Carbonite for genealogy or anything else for that matter? I also have an
external hard drive that I use for backup, but only every few months rather
than daily, because it's either too old or I'm too old to figure out how to
have it backup automatically. I know how important it is to have cloud storage,
and would like it done seamlessly.
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