This will be the last blog post on cloud computing for now but feel free to ask me any related questions – either in the comment section below or via email. Be sure to read my word of caution at the end of this post.

You might wonder how I keep my files organized if I’m using four cloud services. There is a method to my madness!

Apple’s iCloud – since I have an iPhone, an iPad and several iMac computers, it’s just natural to share files between devices via iCloud. Thus, the first of my four cloud services is used to share photos, videos, notes and documents between my Apple devices. Although I have the other three cloud programs on my Apple machines, I don’t back up to them, I only use them to access something already backed up from a non-Apple device.

Google Drive – is the cloud service I use the least for personal data. However, I do use the service a lot for church work because that’s where our church data is stored. Essentially, I organize Google Drive storage by putting all the church-related files there.

OneDrive and Dropbox – for me, these are my two workhorses. I organize these two cloud services by using OneDrive to back up all my business-related files and Dropbox for all my personal files that aren’t iCloud-related.

All four of these cloud services are on all my devices so it is rare that I can’t access the document or picture I need. The same can be true for you!

If you haven’t used a cloud service yet, I suggest you start with one of them. Get to know it inside and out. Make sure it’s on all your devices. Try accessing a file from the cloud from each machine. Play with it, you can’t hurt it.

Be careful about deleting files from cloud storage. Often, when you delete a file from one device, it is deleted from all devices and may be gone forever.