# How much of your life is in the cloud

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 29, 2015, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-your-life-is-in-the-cloud/732972 "2015-09-29T19:35:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-your-life-is-in-the-cloud/732972/21 "2015-10-01T02:15:49Z")

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Not much. My up speed is 60 kbps. My company uses “source safe” which every software development company uses, so all my work is backed up on a server.

I do download my Gmail accounts but I leave copies on the server. I delete every so often tho.

Music, photos, videos, personal documents are all on my machine.

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**Author:** ![Archeonomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Archeonomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archeonomist)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-your-life-is-in-the-cloud/732972/22 "2015-10-01T02:47:37Z")

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My mail is in the cloud, I stream music mostly from Spotify so I have packed away most of my cds. I have long since stopped buying software on physical media so you might say my software is in the cloud as well.  
I use various services to keep some files accessible between devices, and my phone automatically uploads photos to Dropbox.  
Contacts and everything else on my phone is backed up to Google.  
I would certainly use cloud storage more if I had better up speed than I have now. I’d like to have remote copies of the photos I take with my dslr, but they are in raw format and would take forever and a half to upload.  
And I don’t mind using the word cloud. To me it just means external storage that someone else is responsible for the upkeep of.

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