Comments on: Is Google Docs Losing Documents? A Reader Laments.

By: Jet

Jet — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:45:41 +0000

Google Lost My Documents “Most likely not.” Here is how to get to them. http://jet-cloud.blogspot.com/

By: pjdownload

pjdownload — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:14:11 +0000

This is happening to me right now!! All my spreadsheets are gone!

I track my billings here! C’mon guys… whatever happened to the cloud? we’re not even talking about anything as specific as redundancy, hot backup or replication… it’s the “cloud”… you know what I mean… right?

By: agentpx

agentpx — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:16:21 +0000

Good thing I use LiveMesh Got Local copy and on multiple computer as well as the Cloud!

By: Dallara

Dallara — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:11:18 +0000

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By: orangetiki

orangetiki — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:28:42 +0000

I am on Dvorak’s side. Clouds can’t hold any weight.

By: oofyP iDeas

oofyP iDeas — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:59:36 +0000

Cloud computing raining on your parade? There’s a Visine for that.

By: gudac

gudac — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:43:48 +0000

I might as well give my 2¢ on the subject. Trusting your work to only the net. Has to be another book in the DUMMIES category.

I just hope my family doesn’t buy it for me as a Christmas Gift next year.

By: pedro

pedro — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:37:33 +0000

#52 Seems they don’t know about RAID. Curious.

By: deowll

deowll — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:23:20 +0000

If it’s important you make more than one copy. Hard drives and computers fail. You can count on it. However Google should have had more than one copy stored…Must be a software glitch but the point is you can’t count of them or anything else. Always have more than one copy if it matters.

By: A Nony Mouse

A Nony Mouse — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:09:11 +0000

#13, Yes JCD should rail against the crappy job Marc Perkel is doing — at least more vocally. Has anyone else noticed that Channel Dvorak is not on Perkel’s server?

By: Ekimdabrave

Ekimdabrave — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:48:33 +0000

Hmm, as someone who lives outside North America, trusting anyone/anything so far away to hold my data securely is foolhardy in the extreme…

Plus, if you wanted to get all paranoid, sening every keystroke thousands of miles there and back and trusting everyone in the middle to NOT look at your data is, again, foolhardy…

By: Mister Mustard

Mister Mustard — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:00:09 +0000

Still waiting for the update. Most likely, Google fixed the glitch, the docs came back, and Mr. Kulak decided to STFU.

After all, a few scant months ago, Mr. Kulak had this to say about cloud computing in general and Google Docs in particular, as a comment following a Wikinomics article slathering praise on cloud computing:

“I’m with you. . .

On this book (Agile Plus Rigor), we are using Google Docs, and it is utterly seamless. We both make changes to the files, we don’t have to worry about “who the owner of this chapter is” and all the inevitable overwrites. Plus, everything is backed up and versioned all to heck. [my emphasis]

Love Google Docs. Love collaborative computing!”

WTF was he thinking, not backing up his only copy of a BOOK before closing the program? Sheesh.

By: pedro

pedro — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:48:11 +0000

#47 Ever heard about NAS’? Jeez!

By: EvilPoliticians

EvilPoliticians — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:08:40 +0000

Obviously I am not going to win any converts here but still want to point out something.

If you are running a business critical process, the “cloud” is not a complete solution – it is simply another option.

Just as not having off-site recovery options in your own data center (or your home PC) is not a wise decision, so is putting everything in a single cloud service provider.

Cloud storage is a simple, low cost and easy to implement option. Check on security, their recovery policies and the financial health of the company as part of the planning process.