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APPLE: We Need Higher iCloud Storage Options!
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It's not an either/or if you're careful. I have enough local storage on my iMac to hold everything that's in my iCloud Drive, including my Photos library. It's all set to keep everything downloaded (not "optimized storage") -- and then it's all backed up to two separate drives.
At the same time, I can still access everything from my MacBook Air or my iPhone, which have much less storage and are set to only download things on demand. Because the iMac maintains a full copy of everything, the other devices can be a lot more light weight.
It's a little annoying to have to keep all this storage, but if I got locked out of iCloud tomorrow, I'd be able to recover all my photos and other files.
yeah I did a post after my comment saying that is the best solution. I was being dramatic but I know lots of people who just solely rely on iCloud and really risk losing all their data.
Very helpful, thank you! I like the pick a single year idea, and try to finish one at a time. I have about 10 years of icloud photos, so if I work on that little by little, it shouldn’t take too** long…
I have a Synology Disk Station DS423+ with four 18TB drives configured Synology Hybrid RAID. I like local storage, but for those who mainly use iCloud - I voted for the most flexible option to allow them to expand as needed.
Crack?
Oh you possible mean computer hardware, similar to @rjw1678 I have a Synology DS. I backup all my photos on my devices there. Since I have an old iphone I also go back and delete a couple of years worth of photos to free space up on the device once they are backed up. Hopefully I will get a new iPhone soon so this part will be less necessary.
Yeah, it's a pretty precarious situation to be in. I remember a few years ago when this journalist wrote this whole piece about how he'd basically lost control of his Apple ID. I forgot how they'd gotten in, but he was totally locked out of his Apple ID and everything that was saved to iCloud. Incredibly disruptive, especially at this point where we all have so many digital assets.
The best thing to ask yourself is: what would happen to me if iCloud (or Dropbox or Google or whatever) locked me out tomorrow? Would I have access to photos of my kids, my business files, personal stuff, etc? If you don't have things physically downloaded (and preferably also backed up) to a device you own, you're really not in control of your data. I think there are a lot of people out there dutifully running their Time Machine backups, but backing up a bunch of little placeholder files and low-res Photos thumbnails and not realizing that they would be truly and completely screwed if iCloud went away for them.
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All it took for me was almost losing my data about 10+ years ago, Thankfully I was able to leverage the warranty my boss had with Alsoft (DiskWarrior) at the time and they rescued all my data.
So, this is something I've thought of. My data is in multiple places, on site and off site. But to mitigate loss from theft (of a device), nothing important is stored there. If someone stole all my computers, my data is off site. The only things I don't have backing up is stuff I don't care about.
Yeah. I understand you had legacy reasons and already using Dropbox. I just dumped all my collections from iPhotos in MBP to iCloud. It took couple days but it was worth it, and I still hate the restrictions of iCloud backing up only Documents/Photos/Desktop on Max. I have to adjust the way Documents is mapped for backing in to iCloud.
I lost my Mac and its only backup in a burglary years go. It made me really cautious!
As a former user of the product being discussed, his opinion is as valid as other posters.
I know it will never happen, but I wish Apple would allow iCloud backups and photo streams over standard protocols. WebDAV or whatever. I don't care about the details, but I have this nice huge NAS sitting here and wish it was easier to integrate it with iOS.
Sure, a discussion on topic is welcome. Jumping in and throwing "scam" around certainly is far from that, a discussion on storage tiers.
iCloud launched 12 years ago. On its 6 year anniversary, Apple doubled the highest-end tier from 1 TB to 2 TB. So perhaps Apple will double 2 TB to 4 TB this fall?
In the absence of such gesture, I would like to see Apple One Premier match Google's Google One 2TB + Unlimited Photos plan, a $14.99/month plan Google offers to customers of certain US wireless customers.
In the absence of such gesture, I would like to see Apple One Premier match Google's Google One 2TB + Unlimited Photos plan, a $14.99/month plan Google offers to customers of certain US wireless customers.
Explain your comment and I will happily explain to you why my comment was very valid here.
Oh, now is about the 'scam' word. OK, fair enough. I apologize for the word. Anything else?