Your digital belongings can depend on a company continuing to find them profitable.

STILLNESS

WHAT THIS MEANS

Your photographs, music, books, and documents may exist only for as long as some company finds hosting them worthwhile. That is a strange arrangement for the record of a life, and it holds regardless of how permanent the service currently seems.

Keep your own copies of what you would grieve losing. A drive, a second location, an occasional export. Do it once a year on a set date so it actually happens. Nothing about this is urgent until the day it is, and by then the option has usually gone.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Where do your most important files actually live?

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