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monkey on the fringe
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Seattle Metro
Device: Moto E6, Echo Show
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Amazon Drive is ending on 31 Dec 2023
Amazon Drive is ending on December 31, 2023
Just received this email. Quote:
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350 Hoarder
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Midwest USA
Device: Sony PRS-350, Kobo Glo & Glo HD, PW2
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I don't really use any cloud service for backups of my files, so I don't have a horse in this race. But I think it's great that they're giving so much time for people to decide what to do or move files elsewhere. Too many free storage sites went to pay-only models giving people only 30 days to adapt to the change, pay up or lose your files.
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Wizard
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Join Date: Sep 2017
Device: PW3, Fire HD8 Gen7, Moto G7, Sansa Clip v2, Ruizu X26
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I self-host my own cloud storage using NextCloud. Works great for my family, but not the solution for everybody, as you have to be somewhat technically astute to implement it.
I've never messed with Amazon Cloud. I assume some level of free storage must come with a Prime membership, but I've never used it. One, because of security issues handing a third party your important files. And two, because at some time it will either become non-free, or go away entirely. |
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Wizard
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Ohio
Device: iPhone 7+, iPad mini, 2021 iPad Pro 12.9",Paperwhite 6.8"
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I never used it, even back when we owned Fire tablets. I don't remember why I didn't like it though.
I use Apple iCloud. I can access it from any of my devices or PC's. |
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Grand Sorcerer
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD
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Never even knew it was a thing.
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Grand Sorcerer
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Device: Kindle Fire, Kindle Paperwhite, AGPTek Bluetooth Clip
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I got the e-mail--because I was a user, according to Amazon--but have no clue what Amazon Drive is. I clicked the link to my account and discovered some music files and a few photos I must have taken with a Fire tablet. I have no idea why the music files are there; I recognize them, but they are only a dozen or so of the hundreds and hundreds of Amazon songs I own. Weird.
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Recovering reader
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: México
Device: iPad
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I didn't know Amazon Drive existed. I clicked on the link and saw that there are some files from 10 years ago when I was a student. I have no idea how they got there.
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Wizard
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: PDXish
Device: Kindle Voyage, various Android devices
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Looks like if you used the "Send to Kindle" option to get files to your Kindle prior to April 14, 2016, it stored the files in the Amazon Drive. So, I have a couple items there from that. After April 14, 2016, it only saves them in your Kindle Library.
I also have a folder called "Archived Music" that appears to be several things I purchased from Amazon once upon a time (more than 10 years ago.) |
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eReader Wrangler
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Boise, ID
Device: PB HD3, GL3, Tolino Vision 4, Voyage, Clara HD
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Glad this was posted here. I got the email, but I didn't remember using the Drive. Went to it anyhow and found some 25 Gigs of zipped music I had uploaded to Amazon ten or eleven years ago. I think most of it's still in my Amazon Music, but with Linux it's tedious to try to download (and separate out the stuff you can "play for free"). A lot of music is on my old computer in storage, so I spent several hours just listening to music I hadn't heard in a while. (I don't think all of it is on my Amazon Music account, because I've looked for some of it and couldn't find it.) All downloaded now.
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Grand Sorcerer
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: UK
Device: Kindle Scribe, PW SE & Kindle 2022, Kobo Libra 2
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I use Dropbox, I have for years. Even owning a Fire tablet I have no use for Amazon’s cloud.
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Gentleman and scholar
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Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Space City, Texas
Device: Clara HD; Nook ST w/Glowlight, (2015) Glowlight Plus, Paperwhite 3
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Grand Sorcerer
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: UK
Device: Kindle Scribe, PW SE & Kindle 2022, Kobo Libra 2
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Resident Curmudgeon
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts
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A cloud is a hydrometeor consisting of minute particles of liquid water or ice, or of both, suspended in the atmosphere and usually not touching the ground. It may also include larger particles of liquid water or ice, as well as non-aqueous liquid or solid particles such as those present in fumes, smoke or dust.
So really a cloud server is just a server. We really need to change the name as it's not a cloud. |
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Grand Sorcerer
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Device: Kindles
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Pedantic is an insulting word used to describe someone who annoys others by correcting small errors, caring too much about minor details, or emphasizing their own expertise especially in some narrow or boring subject matter. (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pedantic)
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Non-Techy
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: WV---USA
Device: Samsung Cell Phone & Amazon Fires & Kobo eReaders
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I was planning on Deleting the Amazon Drive from my account... BUT I only Found this:
Amazon Photos & Amazon Drive ... ALL in 1 App!! Seems to me they are ALSO saying they are Stopping Amazon Photos TOO!!! |
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