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Yeah. Weird paranoid habits massively saved me. I no longer trust icloud drive at all.

My backup discipline is excellent because back in the early 2000s we lost a drive which I had not been backing up and it had months of contract work on it; I ended up paying $2500 plus $30 per _CDROM_ burned for the content from that drive... it was just barely worth it.

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The backup philosophy I have is that each “thing” is a single point of failure.

In other words, iCloud is one “thing” even if it claims itself to have multiple versions/copies/backups.

But the scary thing about this is that it might have gone undetected- silently reverting a file and it not being noticed is death-tier horrifying.

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