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Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work

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Re: Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work

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Post by sureshv »

smtddr wrote: post #27
l0stb0y wrote: post #18

I wasn't a fan if CC at first but it's turned into an incredibly good deal for me at $30 per month. A little downtime from time to time can't be avoided. People just love to complain.

>>A little downtime from time to time can't be avoided. People just love to complain. If you feel this way then image-editing isn't your core task in your job. Imagine if the github.com maintainers had your attitude. "Meh, some downtime here 'n there. Whuchagonnado? " A github outage for _OVER 24 HOURS_ would freakin' wreck me and my coworkers. The image-editing department for a high-fashion magazine in New York or P…

I would think git's distributed nature would make this a lesser issue. You would just have to set up another remote target and push/pull from that (say on AWS or some other provider).

Re: Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work

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Post by dalerus »

l0stb0y wrote: post #43
dalerus wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It wasn't a little down time. Also they handled it poorly. I had four staff without access to key systems for our designs. I had to call customers and explain why deadlines were going to be missed. Made me look unprofessional, especially since there was NO announcement by Adobe. I had to search Twitter to find out what was going on.

You don't have CS5 or 6 running on backup computers in case of CC or general internet outages? Did you explain that to your customers?

No because we work primary in Flash. Flash is not backwards compatible, and we have custom applications developed for flash.

CC is much larger than just Photoshop.

Also internet outages don't usually affect CC.

Re: Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work

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Post by redacted »

x0x0 wrote: post #30
rtpg wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't have the data to back it up, but (for example) data loss as a whole have probably considerably gone down with transitions to SaaS. Sure you can self-host, but who do you trust more: some guy on your team who has other things to do, or a team that does only that ? And a team whose livelyhood depends on uptime/data protection. Here people can't work, but imagine the amount of work if there was a data failure on…

time machine in the event of a theft, I can walk into an apple store, purchase an in stock macbook, let time machine recover for ~30 minutes, and get back to work edit: just to be clear, I bet the vast majority of users will, even after this 24+ hours, experience less net downtime. Nonetheless, when I need to hit a deadline, with installed software, I have a viable plan b. The viable plan b here appears to be to grov…

Check out Carbon Copy Cloner [1] if you haven't already. It will create a bootable clone of your drive, with deltas and versions and all that good stuff. During fast-moving projects I usually clone daily. In the event of a drive failure I can simply reboot the Mac from the clone as if nothing happened, cloning back to new internal drive (or machine in case of theft).

[1] http://www.bombich.com/

Re: Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work

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Post by gohrt »

smtddr wrote: post #27
l0stb0y wrote: post #18

I wasn't a fan if CC at first but it's turned into an incredibly good deal for me at $30 per month. A little downtime from time to time can't be avoided. People just love to complain.

>>A little downtime from time to time can't be avoided. People just love to complain. If you feel this way then image-editing isn't your core task in your job. Imagine if the github.com maintainers had your attitude. "Meh, some downtime here 'n there. Whuchagonnado? " A github outage for _OVER 24 HOURS_ would freakin' wreck me and my coworkers. The image-editing department for a high-fashion magazine in New York or P…

Turn it around into a special no-Photoshop issue of the magazine, and disrupt the high-fashion industry!

Re: Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work

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Post by binarycrusader »

jawngee wrote: post #62

You can still use CC software, you just can't update or have access to their shitty sync software. But all the apps work, they don't require an internet connection (for 30 days at least), so it's not the disaster everyone is making it out to be.

No, if you read the very fine article, you'd see that users specifically were encountering problems running apps. Some users were unable to run the apps getting unexpected errors when trying to do so despite what you say.

Re: Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work

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Post by yuhong »

dalerus wrote: post #64
l0stb0y wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't have CS5 or 6 running on backup computers in case of CC or general internet outages? Did you explain that to your customers?

No because we work primary in Flash. Flash is not backwards compatible, and we have custom applications developed for flash. CC is much larger than just Photoshop. Also internet outages don't usually affect CC.

Yea, unplugging the Internet is a known workaround in fact.

Re: Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work

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Post by LoganCale »

jawngee wrote: post #62

You can still use CC software, you just can't update or have access to their shitty sync software. But all the apps work, they don't require an internet connection (for 30 days at least), so it's not the disaster everyone is making it out to be.

Totally false. Many people are unable to launch the applications at all.
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