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A Case for Backing Up Your Precious Photos and Files at Home

Ask people who’ve lost their home to a fire or hurricane, and they’re often most heartbroken about the family photos that no longer exist.

To safeguard against this fear, we’ve largely embraced backing up our precious photos and files through the cloud, like Apple’s iCloud or Google One. You take a picture and it’s suddenly on all of your devices. You don’t really know where it is, but it’s somehow everywhere. It’s magic.

Until it isn’t.

Some cloud services have unexpectedly shut down or severely scaled back the space they give users. Some users have gotten locked out of their accounts, never able to access their photos again. And, unless you suddenly stop taking photos, you’re bound to use more cloud storage over time, which means your monthly subscription costs will keep rising. If you don’t want to pay more, you’ll have to delete files to free up space.

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