Welcome to the club of people who Microsoft stole Minecraft from. They deleted my copy since I did not migrate my account in time.
Timely reminder to back every fucking thing up.
Trust none of these valley assholes to do the right thing.
Just make sure YOU do the right thing.
And of course, if my HD crashes, I sync back all the really important stuff.
(OK, I would lose prior revisions of a file - I can live with that).
The lack of control with closed platforms is staggering. Best make those offline bsckups.
I assume Apple give you control as well.
Sane people like me use Linux, though.
> Best make those offline bsckups.
I have that too! A separate HD that I mount and clone to once a week.
However, if you have an external drive at /Volumes/MYSHTUFF, you do not point iCloud at /Volumes/MYSHTUFF. You maintain a copy of ~/Documents at /Volume/MYSHTUFF/Documents. Maybe you use that as your primary work space an sync to ~/Documents periodically. For some apps and workflows (Logic projects, git repos), you don't want your live copy to be the cloud-sync'd copy.
Same with Apple Music. Keep your MP3s on an external drive, place a copy on the internal drive, drag the internal copy onto the Music app.
3 copies, 2 different media, 1 off-site
But also, what a fucking disgrace, Microsoft
Edit to add: cloud plus synced hard drives do not count as separate copies
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48761944
With the barest of config, it's almost a drop-in replacement
I don't. What makes me so special!?
(And arguably why not download the game assets or whatever if you're going to necessarily play connected anyway.)
This amounts to "We deleted all your data in order to keep it safe." WTF.
#2 This is the personal version of what europe is going through now, with the realization that those cloudy cloudy services may be convenient, but don't bet your life on one.
Keep a local backup!!!
In fact, local backup first, with the cloud as a backup of your backup.
But locking the games out is unacceptable since you can not back these up and they are not sensitive data. At the very least Microsoft should either offer a new account with all the purchases included, or a full refund.
Ended up not pursuing it but every time I see a story like this I think I should have.
My wife’s backups also go on BackBlaze because she would be much, much, much less tolerant of a local glitch than I would.
TL;DR local-first backups here. Time Machine makes it trivial except when it falls on it face and has to start over. Highly recommended if you can put up with replacing a hard drive every few years.
It does mean you need a separate backup process though.
So when Microsoft force updated my entire office to windows 11 and force uploaded their desktops to onedrive and locked them out because the cloud drive was now full.. I was uneffected (apart from having to fix the mess).
My progress in getting everything off Google Drive and OneDrive has slowed due to real life but all the important stuff is backed up offline now.
I also have a silly box that I call the 'T Box Series T' that is made out of loads of old PVR HDD's that were donated or found on the side of the road, if they burn out there is no big loss.
Some stuff is online but I have copies of copies of everything now.
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