Doesn'y pay to keep anything online ! (Page 4): Don't you mean ye another free online service? and if you didn't know you had it or how to use it, what did you actually lose?

mikeroetex Loc: Lafayette, LA

chrissybabe wrote:

Yet another online service drops from sight. Saving anything online is just so risky.
I appear to have a Google + account but don't know how nor do I use it. However this is the reason why I keep nothing online.

Don't you mean ye another free online service? and if you didn't know you had it or how to use it, what did you actually lose?

sabfish

Google+ is not the same thing as Google Photos. It was an additional social media platform. If your photos are stored in Google Photos, they will still be there. I pay Google monthly for the space I occupy with my photos. I am quite sure they will treat you the same if the space you occupy is below the limit for which you must pay. All registered users of Google were additionally given a Google+ account. I never used mine and do not care that it is being eliminated.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

olemikey wrote:

Hey, hey, you, you, get off of my cloud .. . . . ……...

NCMtnMan Loc: N. Fork New River, Ashe Co., NC

Simple solution since you don't like that people change free things online. Purchase your own domain and website space. Then develop and post your own website. You can then post and backup whatever files you choose without worry about it.

bikertut Loc: Kingsville, MO

Architect1776 wrote:

Why does anyone save online?
It seems quite silly.
This example is not unique.
External drives are relatively cheap.
Have a couple for backups and replace every 5-6 years alternating.
There are more elaborate ways but this is simple, effective and cheap.

Exactly! And I don’t trust any cloud.

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

chrissybabe wrote:

" On April 2nd, your Google+ account and any ... (show quote)

As it is with most free sites. It doesn't make them money, so in the end, most of the time they eventually get shut down, if enough people do not move up to paid versions. I never really on the web for a realiable back up, but for sharing, when free.

RRS Loc: Not sure

chrissybabe wrote:

" On April 2nd, your Google+ account and any ... (show quote)

That's OK, now even things you do pay for are being shared. Just today I'm reading that "Family Tree DNA" is sharing all their files with the FBI. No more a matter of obtaining a warrant. I don't know if it's a good or bad thing. Soon at birth your DNA will be taken and finger prints will too be things of the past. I guess the cloud and many other things are a sign of changing times.

rook2c4 Loc: Philadelphia, PA USA

TriX wrote:

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It's not so much about going belly up, but simply discontinued file hosting services. And this happens a lot. Sometimes the result of a buy out, sometimes not.
The fact is, people are losing their data, including images which are important to them. Yes, perhaps they should have made backups, but that doesn't change reality.

2mdman

It happens. That’s business and life. You move on to something else like google photos or you could just stop using the web and computers entirely.

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

RRS wrote:

That's OK, now even things you do pay for are being shared. Just today I'm reading that "Family Tree DNA" is sharing all their files with the FBI. No more a matter of obtaining a warrant. I don't know if it's a good or bad thing. Soon at birth your DNA will be taken and finger prints will too be things of the past. I guess the cloud and many other things are a sign of changing times.

I've always told my kids and grandkids, do not put anything on the web you do not want shared...... Once it's there, the whole world can see it and share it..... No privacy on the web.

george19

Google+ was a competitor to Facebook, but never gained traction. Per the email, your Google Drive and other storage features should not be affected.

Dikdik Loc: Winnipeg, Canada

Gene51 wrote:

I don't think you paid anything, didn't use it, so you lost nothing - I don't understand what you mean by "Doesn'y pay to keep anything online !"

I'm a bit of a dinosaur... never used the cloud... had no need and never trusted it. HDDs are cheap.

Dik

nadelewitz Loc: Ithaca NY

DirtFarmer wrote:

Using binary notation you can count up to 31 using the fingers of one hand (including your thumb). If you use both hands you can count to 1023.
That does take some manual dexterity. If, in addition to that, you can develop pedal dexterity and use your toes also, You can make it up to 1,048,575.

That's a lot of software products.

That would be 32 on one hand and 1024 with two hands. 0 (zero) is data too.

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

Actually, it might be written as, few(base 2) or few(base10).

Mark

chrissybabe wrote:

Apart from the fact that I only have 7 fingers which would lower your total quite a lot I think most people would assume I was talking about actual individual fingers rather than using binary notation.
And since you are into binary I hope that next time you use the word "few" on here you write it like this "few (binary)" or "few (real numbers)" so that we know what scale you are using !

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Architect1776 wrote:

Why does anyone save online?
It seems quite silly.
This example is not unique.
External drives are relatively cheap.
Have a couple for backups and replace every 5-6 years alternating.
There are more elaborate ways but this is simple, effective and cheap.

In case my house burns down (or up, depending on where you're from), lightning strike, the on-line backup is off-site and all automatic.