Warning to "iCloud" users

[joshb]

I'm a Dinosaur with computers. I had all my pictures " safely backed up" in the cloud. 1500 of them. All my trips and my insurance gun pics. I got a message from "them" that my cloud was almost full and I had to buy more space. I decided to just keep my photos on my iPad, with out the safety of the "backup" and just be more careful. I told "them" to delete my pictures from the cloud. They gave me 30 days to change my mind, but I didn't. 30 days later, all my pictures disappeared from my iPad. WHAT THE HECK!! I called them. They said that if you delete any "stuff" you store in the cloud, they automatically come back and remove it from all your "devices". They didn't tell me that when I signed up or warn me about it AT ANY TIME. Be forewarned!

 

[snert]

An excellent reminder that nothing is free...in a capitalistic or socialistic economy, makes no difference. No one gives you anything for free and when they say they do, they usually mean to come and take it.

Sorry to hear of your loss

 

[Ggmac]

holly cheese BATMAN. Sorry to hear that . I guess I now know what the message means when it keeps popping up . Good thing my brownie ( Kodak still works . Now where did I put the film?
Is there any way to retrieve them from I cloud? I've got to let Ann know , we have some video saved for an up coming legal case .

 

[JamesnTN]

That's why I also have google photos and drop box on my iPad and iPhone. If for some reason something goes haywire I have a backup source.

 

[Ggmac]

That's why I also have google photos and drop box on my iPad and iPhone. If for some reason something goes haywire I have a backup source.

James , I'm also a dinosaur. How do I get those things you listed , I have an I pad . Still using the flip phone though!

 

[GrocMax]

And y'all thought your phones were secure.

They can't (yet) reach into a SD card or USB stick stuck in a safe.

 

[Snuggie]

Wow! Josh, sorry to hear that! Hope you can retrieve somehow. Thanks for the education on that!!

 

[JamesnTN]

James , I'm also a dinosaur. How do I get those things you listed , I have an I pad . Still using the flip phone though!

Download from the App Store from your iPad.

 

[rardoin]

I'm a Dinosaur with computers. I had all my pictures " safely backed up" in the cloud. 1500 of them. All my trips and my insurance gun pics. I got a message from "them" that my cloud was almost full and I had to buy more space. I decided to just keep my photos on my iPad, with out the safety of the "backup" and just be more careful. I told "them" to delete my pictures from the cloud. They gave me 30 days to change my mind, but I didn't. 30 days later, all my pictures disappeared from my iPad. WHAT THE HECK!! I called them. They said that if you delete any "stuff" you store in the cloud, they automatically come back and remove it from all your "devices". They didn't tell me that when I signed up or warn me about it AT ANY TIME. Be forewarned!

If you have backed up your I-pad to your computer you can restore from that back-up and at least get your photos up to the date of last back-up.

 

[Ray B]

I do not have an iPad, iCloud or other "app" and our only telephone has wires attached. Therefore I keep actual photographs of stuff along with film negatives and slides in a separate fireproof location. but for convenience, when I take a digital photograph of something, when the SD chip gets full, it gets removed from the camera and placed in storage, pictures on it intact. I previously had photographs in a Photobucket account. However when they changed their business model I deleted the photographs and closed the account. now if I want to send a photograph to someone, it goes via e-mail. So there, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Samsung, and the rest of the techs that want to control my life.

 

[lpreddick]

I'm a Dinosaur with computers. I had all my pictures " safely backed up" in the cloud. 1500 of them. All my trips and my insurance gun pics. I got a message from "them" that my cloud was almost full and I had to buy more space. I decided to just keep my photos on my iPad, with out the safety of the "backup" and just be more careful. I told "them" to delete my pictures from the cloud. They gave me 30 days to change my mind, but I didn't. 30 days later, all my pictures disappeared from my iPad. WHAT THE HECK!! I called them. They said that if you delete any "stuff" you store in the cloud, they automatically come back and remove it from all your "devices". They didn't tell me that when I signed up or warn me about it AT ANY TIME. Be forewarned!

This might not help. I learned something re my pics that were in the"cloud". I purposely deleted a lot of them I did not care to keep. I like to edit my pics and my galaxy note 4's pic edit function was not working so I found a pic edit app called "PicsArt" and opened it to edit a pic I just took. WELL HELLS BELLS! Every pic I had ever taken and deleted were there! I don't think we ever delete anything, the device just hides it somewhere. It's worth a try.

 

[hoz53]

I'm a Dinosaur with computers. I had all my pictures " safely backed up" in the cloud. 1500 of them. All my trips and my insurance gun pics. I got a message from "them" that my cloud was almost full and I had to buy more space. I decided to just keep my photos on my iPad, with out the safety of the "backup" and just be more careful. I told "them" to delete my pictures from the cloud. They gave me 30 days to change my mind, but I didn't. 30 days later, all my pictures disappeared from my iPad. WHAT THE HECK!! I called them. They said that if you delete any "stuff" you store in the cloud, they automatically come back and remove it from all your "devices". They didn't tell me that when I signed up or warn me about it AT ANY TIME. Be forewarned!

wow sorry to hear about that. i lost some pics some time ago that meant alot to me when my phone was stolen. i upload my pics from my phone to my windows desktop PC now. They are permanently stored that way. Thanks for the info. I have been getting the notification from apple to about my storage is full? i gotta find out more dor sure

 

[long40shot]

Apple, buncha of libs.

 

[Steve Blair]

I'm a Dinosaur with computers. I had all my pictures " safely backed up" in the cloud. 1500 of them. All my trips and my insurance gun pics. I got a message from "them" that my cloud was almost full and I had to buy more space. I decided to just keep my photos on my iPad, with out the safety of the "backup" and just be more careful. I told "them" to delete my pictures from the cloud. They gave me 30 days to change my mind, but I didn't. 30 days later, all my pictures disappeared from my iPad. WHAT THE HECK!! I called them. They said that if you delete any "stuff" you store in the cloud, they automatically come back and remove it from all your "devices". They didn't tell me that when I signed up or warn me about it AT ANY TIME. Be forewarned!

When dealing with internet businesses, remember two things. If you pay for it, that is the product, expect nothing more and read the terms of service, carefully. If it is free, you are the product and they will happily sell you down the river.

 

[people]

CD DVD or anything offline.
There is an old IT joke. Do you know why Jesus never looses data? Jesus saves.

Memory sticks are cheap put your data on them and pull them. The could is a marketing term it is best to not use it except in its original guise. The cloud is really the internet not some server somewhere.

 

[Steve Blair]

Memory sticks are cheap put your data on them and pull them. The could is a marketing term it is best to not use it except in its original guise. The cloud is really the internet not some server somewhere.

That's not correct. Cloud services are largely provided by clustered, highly redundant servers in geographically diverse data centers. Stored data is usually replicated through a variety of schemes to ensure continuity, regardless what happens at an individual site. My organization provides both a private, highly secure "dark cloud" in our data center and similar services hosted in Amazon's AWS cloud services infrastructure. There is no single definition but a "cloud" is not "really the internet."

In the Op's unfortunate case, there was no unforeseen data loss problem. This was a "terms of service" problem.

 

[carlsbad]

Apple, buncha of libs.

Who think they know what you need better than you do.

 

[Blackthorn]

I save my stuff on a 1TB external hard drive. I also have a 4TB personal cloud where I can store stuff I might want to access remotely. Both work great for backing up my photos and documents

 

[jwink]

I keep my pictures on a laptop with USB stick backup, the last cloud I saw was at sunset, it was beautiful

 

[hoz53]

That's not correct. Cloud services are largely provided by clustered, highly redundant servers in geographically diverse data centers. Stored data is usually replicated through a variety of schemes to ensure continuity, regardless what happens at an individual site. My organization provides both a private, highly secure "dark cloud" in our data center and similar services hosted in Amazon's AWS cloud services infrastructure. There is no single definition but a "cloud" is not "really the internet."

In the Op's unfortunate case, there was no unforeseen data loss problem. This was a "terms of service" problem.

i know youre right about the cloud. Ive worked at some of these data centers when they were built. Wat amazes me is how the just keep building more of them. I wonder how much more data there is that can be kept track of. evidently there always will be "more"