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> And there is worst. Corrupted iCloud Photos and Video Syncing. Countering that with my own anecdata - I've had iCloud Photos turned on since it was released

> And there is worst. Corrupted iCloud Photos and Video Syncing. Countering that with my own anecdata - I've had iCloud Photos turned on since it was released in the dev builds with ~85k photos and videos using 305GB and haven't had a single instance of this happen. (It sucks that it happened to him, of course.)

ksec 7y ago
It happened to me once with a Corrupted iCloud Backup, I was lucky to have a local iTunes Backup on my Mac. I know this may sound hash, stupid or naive. I don't want to know there is only less than 10% Chance of a keyboard failure within 1 year. ( As if that number is any good at all ) For keyboard I want it to be below 1% within its 5 years. I don't want to know there is 0.01% of Photo / Video Corruption. Even at that percentage there is nearly 2M iCloud users at risk. For my photos, my memories, it needs to be perfect. If that requires doubling the price of iCloud Storage then so be it. The whole reason I use iCloud was because my last 2 NAS has file corruption and some photo were either filtered with green or had bottom half gone. Later I had to buy a Synology NAS with BTRFS ( I wish they had used ZFS ). It was way too much hassle. Yes I know you need to do offsite backup etc, but that is like telling average Joe to install drivers themselves on their new Linux computer. No ones wants to do that.
kccqzy 7y ago
How did you determine that none of the 85k photos were corrupt? I have a much smaller library and I didn't think anything was corrupt until one day I was looking for a photo and it was all black. I knew the photo was not supposed to be all black.
- zimpenfish 7y ago
  A fair question! I suppose I should say "in my experience of taking my photos and browsing them over the last N years, I haven't encountered a single one that's corrupt."

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> And there is worst. Corrupted iCloud Photos and Video Syncing. Countering that with my own anecdata - I've had iCloud Photos turned on since it was released

by zimpenfish 7y ago

ksec 7y ago
It happened to me once with a Corrupted iCloud Backup, I was lucky to have a local iTunes Backup on my Mac. I know this may sound hash, stupid or naive. I don't want to know there is only less than 10% Chance of a keyboard failure within 1 year. ( As if that number is any good at all ) For keyboard I want it to be below 1% within its 5 years. I don't want to know there is 0.01% of Photo / Video Corruption. Even at that percentage there is nearly 2M iCloud users at risk. For my photos, my memories, it needs to be perfect. If that requires doubling the price of iCloud Storage then so be it. The whole reason I use iCloud was because my last 2 NAS has file corruption and some photo were either filtered with green or had bottom half gone. Later I had to buy a Synology NAS with BTRFS ( I wish they had used ZFS ). It was way too much hassle. Yes I know you need to do offsite backup etc, but that is like telling average Joe to install drivers themselves on their new Linux computer. No ones wants to do that.
kccqzy 7y ago
How did you determine that none of the 85k photos were corrupt? I have a much smaller library and I didn't think anything was corrupt until one day I was looking for a photo and it was all black. I knew the photo was not supposed to be all black.
- zimpenfish 7y ago
  A fair question! I suppose I should say "in my experience of taking my photos and browsing them over the last N years, I haven't encountered a single one that's corrupt."