![]() ![]() But the Apple rep didn't bother to tell me about the first call concerning my account, despite the 90 minutes I spent on the phone with tech support. In fact, I later found out that a call had been placed just a little more than a half an hour before my own. It wasn’t the first call they had had that day about my account. Unsure of exactly what was happening, I unplugged my router and cable modem, turned off the Mac Mini we use as an entertainment center, grabbed my wife’s phone, and called AppleCare, the company’s tech support service, and spoke with a rep for the next hour and a half. For the first time it occurred to me that I was being hacked. Then the screen went gray, and asked for a four-digit PIN.īy now, I knew something was very, very wrong. When I opened my laptop, an iCal message popped up telling me that my Gmail account information was wrong. I went to connect the iPhone to my computer and restore from that backup - which I had just happened to do the other day. I entered my iCloud login to restore, and it wasn’t accepted. I just assumed it would be a pain in the ass, and nothing more. And, my phone automatically backs up every night. This was irritating, but I wasn’t concerned. Had I been regularly backing up the data on my MacBook, I wouldn't have had to worry about losing more than a year’s worth of photos, covering the entire lifespan of my daughter, or documents and e-mails that I had stored in no other location. Had I used two-factor authentication for my Google account, it’s possible that none of this would have happened, because their ultimate goal was always to take over my Twitter account and wreak havoc. Getting into Amazon let my hackers get into my Apple ID account, which helped them get into Gmail, which gave them access to Twitter. And worst of all, my AppleID account was broken into, and my hackers used it to remotely erase all of the data on my iPhone, iPad, and MacBook. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. So far no answers, but I'm still hopeful.In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. I'm looking around and contacting 3rd party software makers to find out if they intend to support uploading and downloading from Amazon new service like they do for Dropbox, Google Drive, etc. The only thing I can say about Amazon's rollout of their new, consumer-geared unlimited storage is that it is a potentially incredible thing that is throttled and ruined by it's awful software. Shame on me, but I mistakenly thought that by sending all my thousands of photos, videos, documents, etc from my private archives would mean they'd be as easy to access as they were from Dropbox or my iMac, but truthfully, they might as well be on the moon. There doesn't appear to be any simple way to have it monitor the folder(s) of my choice and update them in the background. Like others have noted, it is slow - very, very slow. I'm excited about the unlimited storage for $60/year, but being forced to use this app to take advantage of it is painful. Otherwise, just use the Amazon Cloud Drive web site-there's nothing you can do with the app that you can't do with the site, and lots you can do with the site that you can't with the app. ![]() If you have the earlier app, I recommend you continue using it until an OS update permanently breaks it (assuming you are satisfied with the service and will continue using it). Even if you are someone who finds Amazon's new Cloud Drive pricing scheme suitable and appropriate (and I am not such a person), there is no value to be had in installing and using this app. Note that this is not a review of the Cloud Drive service itself that has its own set of issues. The current app is little more than an interface to the Cloud Drive web site-with fewer features and capabilities than the web page itself. That app has not been distributed or supported by Amazon for over a year. The old app was a menu bar app that allowed automatic synchronization of a folder to your Cloud Drive, as Dropbox does. The distinction is subtle, but significant. ![]() This is not the same app as the old "Amazon Cloud Drive.app". ![]()
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