Everyone pretty much summed up what I wanted to say about Disord going down the toilet recently, but I do offer my condolences to you losing your files! I always fear that I might do something stupid one day and lose all my OC art/fics/etc. I would be just as upset as you are now, ugh :( I wish there was something I could do
For future ref, my friend told me about dropbox plus? She said it's only like $15 or less a month, and it gives you a chance to restore accidentally deleted files for 30 days after deletion! Sounds like a good deal, may look into it myself. Sounds less expensive than a physical harddrive, and at 2 TB, that's a whole lot of room :000
i'm actually using ice drive which cost a bit to get started but is generally easier for me to use than my physical harddrive (which ahs a lot of stuff on it over the years and is very hard to use cause it's old and clunky) but definitely having back ups is for the best. i'm fairly sure i backed up a lot of the stuff but i can't say for certain that i backed up everything (i know one commission i bought that i definitely did not have a copy of but i have access to the artist's kofi so i can pull it from there, it just means i don't have the version without watermark which isn't a hardship)
at the end of the day, it's a difference between up front costs vs costs over time. physical hard drives cost more initially and may fail, but depending on how long you have a cloud drive, the price over time can be way more, plus there's always the fear that the service will go down indefinitely. so both have pros and cons.
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Everyone pretty much summed up what I wanted to say about Disord going down the toilet recently, but I do offer my condolences to you losing your files! I always fear that I might do something stupid one day and lose all my OC art/fics/etc. I would be just as upset as you are now, ugh :( I wish there was something I could do
For future ref, my friend told me about dropbox plus? She said it's only like $15 or less a month, and it gives you a chance to restore accidentally deleted files for 30 days after deletion! Sounds like a good deal, may look into it myself. Sounds less expensive than a physical harddrive, and at 2 TB, that's a whole lot of room :000
2 years, 5 months ago
i'm actually using ice drive which cost a bit to get started but is generally easier for me to use than my physical harddrive (which ahs a lot of stuff on it over the years and is very hard to use cause it's old and clunky) but definitely having back ups is for the best. i'm fairly sure i backed up a lot of the stuff but i can't say for certain that i backed up everything (i know one commission i bought that i definitely did not have a copy of but i have access to the artist's kofi so i can pull it from there, it just means i don't have the version without watermark which isn't a hardship)
at the end of the day, it's a difference between up front costs vs costs over time. physical hard drives cost more initially and may fail, but depending on how long you have a cloud drive, the price over time can be way more, plus there's always the fear that the service will go down indefinitely. so both have pros and cons.
but thanks ;3; it sucks but i'mma just deal.
2 years, 5 months ago