Hornet3d
Wise
So for a few years now I have been using Amazon Drive to give me cloud backup for my data. I hated the Amazon app which had to have a special folder earmarked for syncing and it also duplicated deletions which I was not happy with. The price of storage was good so I used a piece of software call Goodsync to do all my backup on a regular basis. It has a lot of options and it took a while to have it running as I wanted but once set up it was easy to use. As I said I used it for a few years no problem. This week I come to use it and I get a message that from 22nd of August Amazon no longer allow third part apps to work with Amazon Drive. I am therefore forced to use the Amazon photo app, which despite the name, will allow the back up of data other than just photos or videos. The app is better than what went before, at least I thought so until I spend the best part of a day trying to sync my runtimes. Despite the fact they already exist on Amazon Drive the new app refuses to recognise this fact and wants to start from scratch. Now I have a very fast broadband but that is only for down load, upload is appallingly slow so 290Gig of data is going to take days, and that is just my runtimes. Not only that but when I sync the folder the app is showing the data at only 162Gig, I thought that might be due to compression until I saw the files are missing some 200,000 files. The final straw is that if I try to display just what is being uploaded the app crashes on both my Windows 7 and Window 10 machine.
The only saving grace is that I only had three weeks left on Amazon Drive before I needed to renew. I have now cancelled the auto card debit so my storage allowance will fail in a few weeks. I do have an alternative which I can now use to do backup, archiving and syncing with very little effort and it can be done in background or overnight but it still means I am starting from scratch with days of uploading in front of me and also having to denude Amazon Drive. All this just because a large operation decided to change the rules and not even tell me they had done so. Sometimes I hate technology and what is introduced in the name of progress.
The only saving grace is that I only had three weeks left on Amazon Drive before I needed to renew. I have now cancelled the auto card debit so my storage allowance will fail in a few weeks. I do have an alternative which I can now use to do backup, archiving and syncing with very little effort and it can be done in background or overnight but it still means I am starting from scratch with days of uploading in front of me and also having to denude Amazon Drive. All this just because a large operation decided to change the rules and not even tell me they had done so. Sometimes I hate technology and what is introduced in the name of progress.