I laugh immensely at people that buy computers with terabyte hard drives - because my hard drives are for the OS only.I decided to try out Carbonite for online backup of a desktop PC. If two or three caught fire simultaneously, well, come on, let's be realistic, I would play the Lottery if I was that good at beating the odds. If the car caught fire, I still had the office desk memory stick and the home computer "work folder". If my house burnt to the ground, I still had the office desk memory stick and the glove box memory stick. If the office burnt to the ground, I still had the home computer "work folder" and the glove box memory stick. One memory stick stayed at the office, the other was locked in the glove box whenever I was not at the office. Reinstall the OS, all of my data remains untouched. The external hard drive was more of a safety precaution agains the OS crashing. Most of the company computers were so tightly locked down that you were locked out of your computer if you plugged your phone in to the USB Port to charge your phone. Only three people in the entire company had USB Port access - me, IT Manager, and VP (I'm sure other higher-ups did also, but only three that I interacted with). He stopped laughing after losing his data.ĮVERYTHING was saved to TWO memory sticks, an external hard dive, AND was synchronized to a "work folder" on my HOME computer. That sales manager used to laugh at me because I saved NOTHING to the hard drive. THREE programs to prevent losing data - and he lost the data anyway! He was unaware that OneDrive only synchronized one specific folder and he never saved anything to that folder. He could retrieve their copies but not his own changes. He had Synology configured to only synchronize "one way" and two other salesmen also saved to that file. It was top of the To Do List when we returned from lunch.Ĭarbonite had already overwritten the good archived file with the corrupted archive and he didn't have it set up to keep different versions of the same file. One of his customer spreadsheets became corrupted and it was right before lunch break that he noticed it. The third was OneDrive - for no other reason than it came with Windows. The second was a company-wide utility - Synology. The Sales Manager had THREE different software programs to "synchronize data" out of an immense fear of losing customer data. Source: End of support for OneDrive desktop application on Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 - Microsoft Tech Community Note: Not only the Desktop App reaches it's End-Of-Life, but starting in March 2022 (5 MONTHS FROM NOW?!) you can also NO LONGER synch your data with the App I just hope that Google extends their Chrome Support for Windows 7 again or that they dont pull the plug on Win8 alongside W7 on that day. Looks like Windows 8's support end for many Apps will be alongside Windows 7's. That reminds me of poor Windows Vista, which was always coupled up with Windows XP, when companies ended their support for XP (Firefox, Chrome, MS Office, Skype, Spotify.). I can somehow unterstand that the support for Windows 7 and 8.0 is ending, because both reached their End Of Life already, however pulling the plug on Windows 8.1 soo early is just a typical Microsoft-move. I can't lie when I tell you how surprised I was after recently reading a new article, about Microsoft ending support for OneDrive on Windows 7, 8 and even 8.1 in 2022.
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