We have been very skeptical to "clouds" before because a "cloud" is a server (mostly) controlled by others.
(..don't get me started on US servers with government intervention and gag orders).
So if the provider goes bankrupt or shuts down or experiences a bug you could loose your documents altogether.
This nightmare scenario has become temporarily true on Google Docs where people accessing their documents where denied with a message about violating Google's terms of service.
So your documents are not accessible which is very inconvenient for your major presentation in Congress in 30 minutes - depending on Google docs.
Or maybe more likely unusable in the class that you teach where all your pupils need their feedback from Google docs.
This was a bug and Google asked for patience while fixing the bug.
Let it be a warning not to depend on "Clouds".
Must run now to my presentation in the Parliament with the data from my local harddisk......
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Google docs shutting you out from your documents
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Google docs shutting you out from your documents
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Re: Google docs shutting you out from your documents
Cannot stress enough... Data safegurading is user's resposibility.