The OneDrive subreddit was a riot with users complaining about lost data and nerds answering with "achually you don't know how to use it!"
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2025
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It took a lot of work, but I pulled everything I could find down from cloud storage providers and started hosting my stuff locally.
It’s nowhere near as convenient or intuitive, but goddamn if these stories don’t keep popping up everywhere. If you don’t physically have your data in hand, consider it lost. It could be gone at any moment for any reason. If you’re hosting your stuff in the cloud, do yourself a favor and at least back your stuff up locally on top of that, but my honest recommendation is to ditch these companies completely and invest in learning how to host your stuff locally.
The "cloud" is just someone elses computer a d another word for "server cluster". ALWAYS better to own your own storage.
This is why I have over 6k photos and videos still on my phone, even though they’re also on iCloud. But you’ve got the right idea. Once I buy me a NAS, I’m doing the same damn thing!
It kills me to see people losing their stuff. Where are their backups, for crying out loud!!
9/10 people I saw in the store when I worked retail repairing phones never setup any sort of backup for their photos. Never plugged it into their computer never setup Google Photos or iCloud photo backup, nothing.
99% of those phones with issues were out of storage space because the phone was filled with pictures that existed nowhere else.
You'd be surprised at how many tech literate folks don't properly backup even if they know how important it is.
The only photos I backup are my certificates.
Rest are non-essential and don't deserve more than one copy.
I recently lost quite a few videos, moving a partition to the left and it didn't matter enough for me to consider backing them up next time.
The source codes I make however, apart from having them on gitlab, I am also considering keeping a separate drive to store them.
With patches to other projects, stored as diffs instead of storing the whole project.
Jokes on them, I've got way too much illegal shit to just hand it to the cloud. Local storage ftw.
Err... that's a joke, of course, haha ha.
Never trust microsoft with anything important. Ever.
Garenteed they uploaded something unsavoury in all that data. That is like the only way to get your account instantly closed by uploading files.
Saw a YouTuber recently have the same issue after they uploaded a WhatsApp chat dump to google drive to share it with a translator for story. Turns out there was stuff in it that got the Google account blocked, which included the channel.
And this is why I have never used OneDrive.
DumbDrive
They should've got a big SSD instead. Shitty!
Lol, people pay for these subscriptions for years only to find out they can't even use them. Reminds me of employees that spend years being loyal only to find out their employers don't give a shit about them.