Any images not already synced to Adobes Creative Cloud are now irretrievable.
Your photos contain the memories and history of your family, friends, and your whole life.
Losing them is one of the biggest data-loss nightmares for most people.
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Cloud-Only Dangers
This incident shows the vulnerability of our data.
That could be a mistake.
Cloud services like Dropbox, Adobe, and iCloud are usually very safe places for your data.
After all, their entire purpose is to keep it safe for you.
But cloud storage has a few specific dangers you should consider, such as ransomware.
Its a good reminder that cloud data is outside your control, for good and for bad.
Only photos not yet uploaded to Adobes servers were lost.
So, how do you protect yourself?
The first thing is to check that you always have a local version of your photos.
In Apples Photos app, you choose Download Originals to this Mac in prefs.
With Google Photos, things are a little more complicated.
You candownload a dumpof your photos, though.
