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Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward (www.ghacks.net)
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[–] 80 points 1 year ago (8 children)

It'll be like Google: everything goes in, nothing comes out unless you jump through difficult hoops, price continually goes up.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Getting anything out is already almost impossible. I moved sway from 3rd party cloud storage a couple years back. I had to get 500gb from onedrive and it was refusing to download at anything more than 50kb/s (my internet was significantly better than that)

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    If you're in the EU, you can apply for a GDPR request to get sent a copy of all your data in their cloud, same for iCloud. Takes about 48 hours in my experience.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    How is this served? Do they send a usb drive? Or a download link of some sort?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's a download link, on their respective dashboard you can select between the catagories you want. Like on Google you can select if you want youtube, drive, gmail, or everything at once.

    With GDPR they have 7 days to comply, and it should be available to any EU citizen even when outside of EU territory. So I'm assuming you can just change your region. Either way, takeout.google.com is where I'd go.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, i ised take out before, it took 2 weeks to download my photos, i think 8 60gb downloads. It was painful, I got hopeful that youbhad discovered a workaround.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Ah, that's unfortunate. Tbh I've been downloading 200GB there frequently and haven't had any issues.

    GDPR can also be called upon using a registered letter and they are required to deliver as well. I'm not sure but that might be a way to recieve a physical copy.

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