Not really Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Amazon and Google though.
> On 20 Mar 2021, at 18:10, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: > > One word Bob: > > megaupload.com > > bill > >> On Sat., Mar. 20, 2021, 11:27 a.m. Bob Pdml, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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. > -- > %(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. -- %(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.
