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by chronicsonic 939 days ago
Fair point, but so should the user.

This is a good reminder to everyone: Your cloud data still needs backing up.

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Yep. Cloud storage gives you too many ways out if you make a mistake (recycle bin, revision history) that it kind of hides the fact that it's not a replacement for backups. Plus, you can always get hacked.

3-2-1 guys!

Google’s desktop sync doesn’t actually download googles own files, just files in other formats like pdf. Do you launch a Google takeout request from a from job?
Well, that’s an argument against using file formats that are locked in to a cloud service.