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Pro tip: That $40 'cloud sync' subscription I bought for my POS system was a total scam.
I lost a whole weekend of client records when their server went down and the 'backup' was just a local file they never uploaded, so has anyone else been burned by those cheap add-ons that promise more than they deliver?
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elliot_grant3814d ago
lol of course it was a "cloud sync" that never actually synced. I swear these companies just slap "cloud" on anything to charge extra and hope nobody checks. The worst part is when you pay for the premium version and they still just store everything on your local hard drive like a joke. I've learned the hard way to test backups by actually deleting something and seeing if I can get it back. That "automatic sync" label should come with a warning label that says "might upload sometimes if the moon is in the right phase.
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lopez.brooke14d ago
A client once charged me $200 for a graphic design job. I sent them the final files through a cloud service and they never got them. So I drove to their office with a USB stick. That's where I'm coming from on this. @elliot_grant38 you're right that most sync features are half baked. But honestly I think the tech works fine for what it does. The problem is people expect it to be magic. If you delete a file and it doesn't come back, that's not the cloud's fault. It's on you for not reading the fine print. A sync is just a fancy way of saying it copies files sometimes. Not that it saves you from your own bad decisions.
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