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Man loses 14 years of work after Google shuts down his blog

Jul 20, 2016 7:21AM PDT

Here's a Great reason to make backups of your work.
Folks here @ Cnet have been preaching to us for years about this.

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I'm running into folk that think
Jul 20, 2016 7:39AM PDT

It's not up to them to safeguard their stuff. While you may have heard moderators all over write "we only lose what we don't backup" here's a rather famous other fellow about the cloud.

http://www.cnet.com/news/woz-the-cloud-is-a-nightmare/

TODAY, I'm running into folk that used ISP WEB EMAIL for years and then they move or something happens and their email is gone. Another cloudy day.

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Sorry for the guy
Aug 22, 2016 9:04PM PDT

most unfortunate. Did Google intimate them about it before hand

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horrible!
Aug 23, 2016 7:59AM PDT

Oh my God... Shocked it's horrible!

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Sorry the video was deleted.
Aug 23, 2016 8:21AM PDT

It makes sense though since Google owns YouTube.
Here's some Links to read about it though.

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If you find it again, just drop me a line
Aug 23, 2016 8:39AM PDT

As moderators can fix CNET forum stuff like that.

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Thanks
Aug 25, 2016 7:15AM PDT

So Google closed his YouTube account too? Sounds horrible... Thanks for the link Happy