Hi, Personally, I haven't seen much downside to cloud storage services. As Alex mentioned, some folks worry about snooping by governments and such when you store things in the cloud, but, all the power to them if they want to read my documents, learn about VoiceOver and other accessibility features along with any other mundane stuff I store out there. Computers get stolen, memory sticks get lost, all sorts of things that we think are more secure than the cloud aren't necessarily so. I love my Google Drive. Like DropBox, I can be off-line, then as soon as I'm back on-line, everything added to or modified on my Google Drive is automatically synced up to the Cloud and I feel confident that I can access it wherever and whenever I need to. Looking forward to when iCloud Drive comes into the picture.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jul 2, 2014, at 9:54 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: > I can't speak for iCloud Drive, as that feature is not out yet. Using Dropbox > as an example, though, I think most people see it as a positive. Yes, it > stores your data in the cloud. That is not to say that it is only accessible > when you are online, though; Dropbox copies everything to your local hard > drive (or gives you the option to do so on iOS) so even if you have no > internet access you can still get to your files and folders. The down side is > definitely security; the government can see your files, depending on the > service you use, or someone who manages to hack into your account can do > serious damage. That is why I'm excited for iCloud Drive; enable two-factor > authentication, and it is suddenly almost impossible for anyone to access > your files. These are just my thoughts, and I'm not a security expert or > anything. Personally, though, I'm fine with putting my essential files > (writing projects, programming projects, resumes, and other essentials) in > Dropbox, thus ensuring they are always backed up no matter what happens to my > local machines. Of course, services like Crashplan or Carbonite can do > similar things, but I prefer to just store the essentials in the cloud; it > costs less and it easier to manage when a restore is necessary. > On Jul 2, 2014, at 11:14 PM, Robert C <gone.to.da...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> A message that was just posted prompts this question. It was not quite in >> line with that post so started a new one. >> >> With so much attention to using online storage, such as Dropbox, iCloud >> and so on, there is no doubt there are advantages to doing this especially >> if one's offline storage is limited. But the downside? >> >> What are the inherent risks in particular if one is not using offline >> storage, say for backups? Seems risky to rely on outside resources. >> >> Quote of the nanosecond . . . >> Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us. >> Robert & Annie Yanni ke7nwn >> E-mail- >> gone.to.da...@gmail.com >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex Hall > mehg...@icloud.com > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
