It depends on your view of Google and do you trust them keeping a safe and SECURE copy of all your data.
I don't synch - the pic above was an example. I backup everything automatically each week to an attached disk drive and now and then I take a 2 copies at different times of the backup and keep them elsewhere. PCs and Networks were my career for many years and losing files through lack of a backup just mustn't happen.
But if you don't have a backup of all your files somewhere, it's likely that one day something will happen and cause you to lose some or many files. So if Google is your only realistic choice, it's better than not having a copy anywhere.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
OH backs up my files on a hard disc from time to time. I'm retired so files aren't as important as someone who needs them for work. I have lots of photos I wouldn't like to lose though.
When my laptop died the computer shop lan labaged to recover it all.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
My grateful thanks to you all for the help and advice. In the new year I will get the laptops into the hands of an expert and leave all to them I think, safer all round as I still live in the land of pens, writing paper and phones where you lifted the receiver to talk to the operator! Seriously, many thanks.
For the more technically inclined amongst you who are running Windows 7/10 or 11, a suggestion that you can setup volume shadow copy for backups to a separate internal or external drive. It should already be running by default to a degree, but can be refined to suit your needs.
We used to run this service on all our servers for instant file recovery, but it can be just as easily run on a Windows 7/10 or 11, laptop or desktop for a scheduled backup of all files, even those in use at the time of backup occurs.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
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I don't synch - the pic above was an example.
I backup everything automatically each week to an attached disk drive and now and then I take a 2 copies at different times of the backup and keep them elsewhere.
PCs and Networks were my career for many years and losing files through lack of a backup just mustn't happen.
But if you don't have a backup of all your files somewhere, it's likely that one day something will happen and cause you to lose some or many files.
So if Google is your only realistic choice, it's better than not having a copy anywhere.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
OH backs up my files on a hard disc from time to time. I'm retired so files aren't as important as someone who needs them for work. I have lots of photos I wouldn't like to lose though.
When my laptop died the computer shop lan labaged to recover it all.
Seriously, many thanks.
For the more technically inclined amongst you who are running Windows 7/10 or 11, a suggestion that you can setup volume shadow copy for backups to a separate internal or external drive. It should already be running by default to a degree, but can be refined to suit your needs.
We used to run this service on all our servers for instant file recovery, but it can be just as easily run on a Windows 7/10 or 11, laptop or desktop for a scheduled backup of all files, even those in use at the time of backup occurs.'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'