The chances of that are probably massively lower than the chances of you losing them. I don’t think Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Amazon and Google are in the business of losing their customers’ data.
The big players will have multiple copies with far better back-up than the likes of you and me, and the chances of them going out of business without clients being able to make other arrangements, are negligible. To my mind the only reasons not to use cloud storage are if it’s too expensive or if one needs guaranteed access offline, eg somewhere with no or poor connectivity. In many cases the offline storage comes bundled with other services that one pays for anyway. In the second case of course one needs local storage, but that in itself doesn’t strike me as an argument against cloud storage as a backup, only for working copies. All my photos are stored in the cloud version of LR. I used to keep a separate local backup when I had a laptop, but I don’t bother now. My other data is on OneDrive, mostly, and whatever the Apple version is called. If I could be bothered it would be easy to sync everything to a second cloud service so I could assure myself that I had two copies, but I’m sufficiently confident that these organisations have their own backups that I really don’t worry my pretty little head about it. > On 20 Mar 2021, at 16:24, Ken Waller <[email protected]> wrote: > > Loose them ! > > > -----Original Message----- >> From: Bob Pdml <[email protected]> >> Sent: Mar 20, 2021 4:12 AM >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: online photo storage platforms reviewed >> >>> On 20 Mar 2021, at 04:25, Ken Waller <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> With the cost of memory now, I’d be hard pressed to send my images to the >>> cloud or any other system that I don’t have total control over. >> >> What do you think they might do? -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
