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> with dick moves like disabling auto-save to local files in Microsoft Word (your autosave data only autosaves to OneDrive) Unrelated, but this burned me so ha

> with dick moves like disabling auto-save to local files in Microsoft Word (your autosave data only autosaves to OneDrive) Unrelated, but this burned me so hard a few months back - I was so pissed. Worked on a document for hours, saved it but the file was corrupted. No problem, will restore an autosave snapshot... only it was disabled in some update, and only works with OneDrive if you manually toggle the switch. I was flabbergasted.

cjk2 2y ago
Stuff like that makes me appreciate Time Machine on my Mac. I have hourly snapshots of everything that changes. I don't even use VCS software when I'm writing code any more unless I have to collaborate with someone else. Also there are serious problems with OneDrive version history. In numerous occasions, files have failed to restore or the UI is broken and unusable.
- nothis 2y ago
  Dropbox is still unmatched as a service not trying to push you into a trillion dollar monopoly (One Drive, iCloud, Google Drive). It's admittedly been a while but I tested a whole bunch of automatic cloud backup software at one point because I got pissed about some annoying niche cases and Dropbox just worked throughout everything I threw at it, automatic versioning and recovery included. It doesn't mangle file names, handles huge files, folders with tens of thousands of small files, recovering old versions of accidentally overwritten files, works on Mac and Windows without losing a beat, sending people files always works. I guess for collaboration you want to use stuff like Google Docs and advanced versioning software for coding (I'm not talking about coding stuff here, btw, which might throw off some people on hacker news). But Dropbox delivers for "I need a backup and I don't want to think about it except when I mess up and need its help".
ARandomerDude 2y ago
This is exactly why I use git for anything important. You have to remember to save and commit periodically but it has really saved me.
avidphantasm 2y ago
This is why I subconsciously hit Cmd-S/Ctrl-S every 15 seconds.
- boxed 2y ago
  On macOS they switched to live state save for documents decades ago.
pradn 2y ago
This is so baffling to me. Is it just to reduce traffic to OneDrive or something?
gigel82 2y ago
Well, if you had recall enabled, you could get all your text back out of that :)
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cjk2 2y ago

Stuff like that makes me appreciate Time Machine on my Mac. I have hourly snapshots of everything that changes. I don't even use VCS software when I'm writing code any more unless I have to collaborate with someone else. Also there are serious problems with OneDrive version history. In numerous occasions, files have failed to restore or the UI is broken and unusable.

nothis 2y ago
Dropbox is still unmatched as a service not trying to push you into a trillion dollar monopoly (One Drive, iCloud, Google Drive). It's admittedly been a while but I tested a whole bunch of automatic cloud backup software at one point because I got pissed about some annoying niche cases and Dropbox just worked throughout everything I threw at it, automatic versioning and recovery included. It doesn't mangle file names, handles huge files, folders with tens of thousands of small files, recovering old versions of accidentally overwritten files, works on Mac and Windows without losing a beat, sending people files always works. I guess for collaboration you want to use stuff like Google Docs and advanced versioning software for coding (I'm not talking about coding stuff here, btw, which might throw off some people on hacker news). But Dropbox delivers for "I need a backup and I don't want to think about it except when I mess up and need its help".

ARandomerDude 2y ago

This is exactly why I use git for anything important. You have to remember to save and commit periodically but it has really saved me.

avidphantasm 2y ago

This is why I subconsciously hit Cmd-S/Ctrl-S every 15 seconds.

boxed 2y ago
On macOS they switched to live state save for documents decades ago.

pradn 2y ago

This is so baffling to me. Is it just to reduce traffic to OneDrive or something?

gigel82 2y ago

Well, if you had recall enabled, you could get all your text back out of that :)

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