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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
The cloud is only useful if you're online when you need a file. It's useless if you're in a situation when you don't have internet access.
My photos are in several places - on my hard drive, on google drive, on my flash drive, on my phone.
My data files are on a flash drive, though I do have some duplication to my hard drive on my desktop computer with some of the files. The only exception are the files I created using google sheets and google docs. Those are initially on the cloud server, and THEN I convert them to libre office formatting and save them to my flash drive. I don't use google sheets or docs for much though.
Most of my programs are on a flash drive, and I have my entire computer ghosted to an SD card.
This is the same flash drive I've had for seven years. It's fine. The USB port I usually stick it in is getting wobbly because my cat keeps rubbing against the drive. The data on the drive is still perfectly secure and allows me to work (and read books) offline.
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I use Dropbox and you have the option at the file or folder level to choose cloud or cloud and local. For example, I have music both cloud and local so there is no need for download to play a song. But my pictures are cloud only, which means they must be downloaded before viewing.
Flash drive or any single point of failure is a recipe for disaster.