I recently downloaded Microsoft Powerpoint on my Mac. I found out that when I edit my presentation it will actually autosave it to cloud, just like the web app. It was working well for a while. But today I closed my window somehow hours of my progress was gone. Turns out that I ran out of the “free 5gb of storage” and I ran out of storage without noticing it, so it did not save. I’m never going for cloud EVER again. We all make mistakes, and this one taught me a lesson not to use cloud storage. BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP GUYS

  • HolidayPsycho@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Because there are computer illiterate people get confused all the time when documents can be saved in the cloud or local, so Microsoft now chooses to make cloud the default location for saving documents. This helps many people, but it can also be dangerous if saving to the cloud fails.

    The best way is saving to the local drive and letting OneDrive sync to the cloud. But you need to change settings in OneDrive. It can still be confusing.