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Title is misleading. This is an isolated edge case, although clearly one that should be addressed.
Dropbox's event log has saved me so many times. I have recovered pictures of my family that mean a great deal to me. I even get an email if lots of files were deleted, and the API is amazing. That's why I love Dropbox, the file sync is their bread and butter, their core business and not just a feature.
"Dropbox is a feature, not a product" - Steve Jobs
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"And iBooks dropped all metadata at some point" The worst part of that is that there is no way to manually export that data and back it up yourself. Its worse now because Apple is only providing some information as ebooks and not pdfs. So, I get something that can loose my notes and I cannot print out (sorry, I sometimes like to read on something without an LCD).
I really hope to see in my lifetime a move back to user owned data and a distributed internet again. This whole centralization and proprietary nature of things is really not to my taste. If anyone is going to lose my stuff, I want it to be me or at the very least allow me to back up all my own data to my own backup. Maybe I'm totally wrong, but I just don't like this whole move to cloud computing and centralized data…
Tragically, the modal user has no backups and is more likely to lose their stuff than the cloud providers, at least in the medium term. This and the security issue lead to what Schneier calls the "feudal system": pick a provider, trust them with everything, hope for the best.
I think iCloud is quite revealing of Apple's incompetence as well as the contempt they have for the very users they claim to love. The fact that they think this is OK and normal is, in my opinion, quite disturbing. The same applies to changes made to OSX over the last few years. Incomprehensible, arrogant and full of contempt for users.
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Don't know about that. OS X is a mighty fine OS, iOS is the best mobile OS, Logic gets top points as a DAW, etc etc.
OS X was mighty fine. It's been getting progressively worse in my opinion.
This isn't just an Apple thing. iCloud was designed for mobile, and one thing I've observed about mobile OSes is that (so far) they treat user data with an indifference that is approaching contempt. Mobile devices/OSes are for consuming and messaging or accessing remote systems as a glorified ultra-portable dumb terminal. They're not designed for creating or handling/storing important data.
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1) Other devices don't see the files that are still being uploaded 2) Tried creating a folder, uploading 200 MB file in it and moving the folder to to local drive. Works as expected. After upload finished, the folder reappeared with the file in it. So, the files waiting to be uploaded won't disappear.
This seems to contradict the claim in the article. Am I interpreting it wrong?
I think it is safe to say that Apple iCloud is not a backup product, but merely a file synchronisation tool. I never liked the idea of stub files with tools like this. I used Livedrive a few years ago and the whole stub files gives a false sense of security. The only benefit it provided was I could double click the stub file and prioritise the download.
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I have a close friend who is homeless. He synched his iCloud to iPhoto on my Mac. I later learned that he is a heroin addict. Now he has disappeared. I dont have a clue what happened to him. I had a look through his photos recently. Only a few came from his time of homelessness. In the others he is far healthier, more muscular and surrounded by friends, family and coworkers. I resigned in protest from AMCC because I…