• Prox@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I suppose this means Microsoft will not count Word doc file sizes against users’ cloud storage quotas, right? Right??

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      2 days ago

      It’ll be like Google: everything goes in, nothing comes out unless you jump through difficult hoops, price continually goes up.

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        1 day ago

        If you’re in the EU, you can apply for a GDPR request to get sent a copy of all your data in their cloud, same for iCloud. Takes about 48 hours in my experience.

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            12 hours ago

            It’s a download link, on their respective dashboard you can select between the catagories you want. Like on Google you can select if you want youtube, drive, gmail, or everything at once.

            With GDPR they have 7 days to comply, and it should be available to any EU citizen even when outside of EU territory. So I’m assuming you can just change your region. Either way, takeout.google.com is where I’d go.

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              12 hours ago

              Yeah, i ised take out before, it took 2 weeks to download my photos, i think 8 60gb downloads. It was painful, I got hopeful that youbhad discovered a workaround.

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                11 hours ago

                Ah, that’s unfortunate. Tbh I’ve been downloading 200GB there frequently and haven’t had any issues.

                GDPR can also be called upon using a registered letter and they are required to deliver as well. I’m not sure but that might be a way to recieve a physical copy.

    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
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      No, they upload your file, delete the local file, then oopsie, you ran out of cloud storage, please pay $99/month to access your files.