I recently downloaded Microsoft Powerpoint on my Mac. I found out that when I edit my presentation it will actually autosave it to cloud, just like the web app. It was working well for a while. But today I closed my window somehow hours of my progress was gone. Turns out that I ran out of the “free 5gb of storage” and I ran out of storage without noticing it, so it did not save. I’m never going for cloud EVER again. We all make mistakes, and this one taught me a lesson not to use cloud storage. BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP GUYS

  • diamondsw@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Running out of space will cause problems with anything. I just went to edit a config file on my Docker VM, and not only would it not write the changes, but it somehow deleted the original file at the same time! Yep, root volume was full (I really need better monitoring/alerting…), but after cleaning out some unneeded Docker build cache I was able to restore the file from yesterday’s backup and all was well.

    Moral of the story - cloud isn’t the problem, it’s lack of storage. It’s always lack of storage. ;)

  • dr100@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    That sounds like an application issue, you can run out of space locally as well (especially with the Macs that are shockingly stingy with the storage in the basic configurations and cost tons to buy the devices with more, and the SSDs were soldered even when they were more like PCs than phones). Backups wouldn’t help to recover some work that was never saved.

    • neon1415official@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I checked my Mac storage but it had 50gbs of free storage. then I checked the office cloud and it was 5gb/5gb

      • dr100@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        The point is you could run out of space anywhere, and if you’re suggesting 50GBs is a lot and you’ll never run out of space I think you’re preaching to the totally wrong choir.

        • neon1415official@alien.topOPBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          My macbook has only 256gb of storage which is tiny so I always keep my files on hard drives, but recently I ran out of hard drives. I’ll buy some asap

  • chrisprice@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I deal with a few family friends who have Mac and use Office. And they cannot grasp this.

    Takes hours of training to explain that they have to click the offline save button, inside the save panel, to not get lost on a OneDrive.

    • neon1415official@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      You’re right… I was actually going to hit the offline save button, but it said it’s already saved and synced with the cloud, so I thought I was fine. However, it wasn’t saved to the cloud due to lack of space in onedrive and they never told me about that.