Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why

nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• bytesonbike@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Dropbox has a policy about two years ago that all of your data will be shared with AI, no opt-outs.

  I immediately cancelled my plan and dropped to the free service, which I use to backup photos of my poop.

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  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ugh. Well they got all my shit already so no point changing now. I use my friends dropbox and hes a photographer and videographer for a living. Ironic that the very service hes paying for is going to scrape his data and replace him.

    Most people ive ran into have no idea how to even access a file if its not in a Google drive or dropbox so good luck getting them to understand anything else. My friends complain non stop that I dont use corporate services for every single thing like they do 🙄

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• titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Been using both for decades never had one file go missing that I have ever not deleted myself, or set to remove after backup. 

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  • mad_djinn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I haven’t died yet, if we are sharing random arbitrary personal experiences. I expect to in the future.

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    • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well considering that I’ve been in the IT industry for over 20 years at this point. And as long as you have things set up properly and you know how things work then this really isn’t an issue. It’s not just my personal experience is also the experience of any of my clients it’s experience of any of the places that I’ve ever worked at it’s the experience of any of the thousands of people that I’ve interacted with and probably tens of thousands of people have interacted with over the past 20 years.

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      • vandsjov@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I’ve been in the IT business for 26 years and I’ve seen software screw up, even when configured correct. OneDrive have lost many files for people to the point that Microsoft more or less apologised for it in 2015.

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      • Angelevo@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I hold the middle ground. When set up properly, the services do tend to work just fine when left alone. Consumers often have automatic updates enabled, that is where shit hits the fan sometimes. I have had the issue of files disappearing. Fortunately, they reappeared some time after. Not sure what Microsoft was doing – we will never know.

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      • treesapx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You don’t have backups for your files on Google drive?

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You’re the kind of person that says gems like “Computers don’t make mistakes, sir”

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  • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    cool

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• slappyfuck@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Cool

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