Re: Happy February PWYC
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2026 5:30 pm
Twins - I have been thinking about the sudden conflict between cloud servers. I backup to 4 cloud servers without a problem.....so now I'm wondering if is something that is about to happen to me too. The files I back up to Dropbox and Onedrive are kept in two completely different folders on my PC.
My OneDrive folder is C:/users/myname/Onedrive
My Dropbox folder is C:/users/myname/Dropbox
The cloud servers only backup files from their own locations.
Anything outside of these file locations is not backed up.
I rarely open and use a file directly from the cloud location. I do not like working on the cloud because of the occasional lag in real time updates. I can type fast and it frustrates me for the screen to not stay up with me. For that reason and others, I always open & use the file that is stored on my pc. The cloud software will automatically backup the changes made from the local file so the cloud backup file is almost always current.
The other cloud backup servers I use are amazon and google but they are mostly photos and videos that backup from my camera (phone) when i take a picture.
Uninstalling, rebooting, and reinstalling Dropbox seems easier troubleshooting option to me than messing with onedrive because it has CRAZY msoft tenacles.
My OneDrive folder is C:/users/myname/Onedrive
My Dropbox folder is C:/users/myname/Dropbox
The cloud servers only backup files from their own locations.
Anything outside of these file locations is not backed up.
I rarely open and use a file directly from the cloud location. I do not like working on the cloud because of the occasional lag in real time updates. I can type fast and it frustrates me for the screen to not stay up with me. For that reason and others, I always open & use the file that is stored on my pc. The cloud software will automatically backup the changes made from the local file so the cloud backup file is almost always current.
The other cloud backup servers I use are amazon and google but they are mostly photos and videos that backup from my camera (phone) when i take a picture.
Uninstalling, rebooting, and reinstalling Dropbox seems easier troubleshooting option to me than messing with onedrive because it has CRAZY msoft tenacles.