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Old 10-30-2013, 10:42 PM   #11 (permalink)
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more reliable than word as far as saving to me

I've lost multiple word documents cuz i didnt click the floppy disc icon, google saves everytime i type something i think
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Old 10-30-2013, 11:52 PM   #12 (permalink)
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I prefer Dropbox over anything that can save files. I've had it for a few years and I've never had a problem, plus the fact that I can get to it from any computer and phone that I have the app/account linked to. It's a nice way to save space on my computer.
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Old 10-31-2013, 06:22 AM   #13 (permalink)
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It's actually current, not future. And I agree it's reliable. For me though, important files need to be saved in 2 places. In the olden days that meant 2 discs/hard drives. Now I'm happy with the cloud and 1 disc. This is for really important stuff only. Less important stuff can live on the cloud. It is more reliable than a heavily used personal disc but you have to remember that the cloud is not actually a heavenly body. It exists because there are people who own servers that host the files that live up there. Those people may die and their servers too.

Anyway, on topic, I feel that google docs is perfectly fine and I trust it as a cloud service. On the other hand, I keep personal backups of files that are too important to lose.
More or less how I feel too. As you say, old days (shut up DJ!) we would save a few different locations on the hard drive(s), another separate floppy disc for extra backup and then one kept offsite (I used to keep mine in the office) as a super deep level of security, just in case. I did in fact begin using FTP as a way to hold an online version in the event that my computer got stolen or something, so technically Mister DJ I was using an embryonic version of cloud computing back in the 1990s!

But yeah, for important stuff --- and I count my journal as important in that, what's written there can't be rewritten exactly the same if I lose it, and I have done on more than one occasion --- I still prefer a copy I have control over, and know where it is.
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I prefer Dropbox over anything that can save files. I've had it for a few years and I've never had a problem, plus the fact that I can get to it from any computer and phone that I have the app/account linked to. It's a nice way to save space on my computer.
Yeah I use Dropbox too. Problem is that it seems to be reliant on where you keep your files, and if you move them to another location and don't update Dropbox it doesn't know and so won't make copies of those new files.
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Old 10-31-2013, 08:30 AM   #14 (permalink)
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I've used Google docs for a few things, but mostly I stick with the industry standard MS Office, and even OpenOffice at times throughout the years. Google docs will facilitate being able to access your documents from anywhere but in your situation it's probably not an issue. If you're just looking for a good word processor, here's a good free one you may want to look into:

http://www.abisource.com/downloads/a...etup-2.8.6.exe
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Old 11-07-2013, 06:22 PM   #15 (permalink)
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I use google docs for everything both at work and home. Super trustworthy, imo.
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