Never mind, the program icon appeared in my system tray just after sending this comment.

Very small fonts in the UI, on my PC with a high-DPI configuration. This could be reason enough not to use the program at all.

If anyone found a way to change the UI font, please let me know...

All right, I found the answer : Spider Oak says the program is not high-DPI compatible yet. Those tips might work for some people. For me, they don't :

https://support.spideroak.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002046966?input_string=ui+font+size

Clairvaux,

You might also find some help on the GOTD forums. Here's one:

"Installation tips; and dealing with tiny text, etc., on higher-DPI "4K" displays"

https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/467145

Thanks, HMarx. Does not work, unfortunately.

Jerry, What happens when your house burns down to the ground with your home server in it.

OleBo, You will have REAL worries, never mind the computer.
Save a complete backup or the important things on a 128GB disc-on-key as someone has suggested and leave it with a relative or trusted friend/neighbour.

OleBo, I believe you have heard of fire safe and bank's safety deposit boxes and or friends and relatives places and by the way the data I keep is encrypted and password protected, the cloud does not guaranty anything, they tell you upfront "If you lose the data, you promise not to hold us responsible for anything".

OleBo, I forgot to ask you, how are you going to protect the customers data from hackers?
Sooner or later someone will get in or a rogue employee can do it from inside, are you going to compensate me for the loses?
I know, you will never tell, just to keep quiet until you go out of business and cut off the access to my data after the fact.

glnz, Sounds like the same offer.

Jim, and put it offsite.

Update. I emailed SpikerOak, got a tailored automated reply, then followed a link where I found a very handy vid of how to apply the promo code.

Their customer service definitely works, even if it is automated.

Steve,
You got a point........with MILLIONS of XP users worldwide......seems a logical "cloud"service would include IT
WHICH THIS DON'T.
I've still got some OLD Win3.1 business files that ARE IMPORTANT and SAFELY STORED - but not in s "cloud".
Obviously this one isn't an answer......

iwontell. What do you use to read those very old files? Are you still using Windows 3.1?

Oreguy, every proprietary software has the potential risk of being backdoored to some extent, no matter how it's encryption works and how good the encryption itself is. In many cases it's not a possibility due to bugs or exploits or something but a design choice, let's call it Emergency-Exit for the own good. Let it be law enforcement, own legal policy or anything else that requires this in someones opinion. Aside from that, zero-knowledge is a decent marketing word at best, it means nothing in the real world, as proven many many times before. So i wouldn't blindly trust such bold words.

senzai6293,
I was burned by Adrive. Yes, they had a much different definition of the word "lifetime" than I do. Smart advice, be careful what you store using this offer.

senzai6293: Hopefully, your advice will be noted by many.

A family member signed up with the widely advertised and promoted "Extra Excellence" service provider, XXL Cloud.com. Its operation, including encryption at source, was touted as amongst the best, and its founder, Dr Andreas Maier and the company were very active on social media. My relative signed up as a result of a special offer promotion and entrusted a considerable amount of personal data to the service.

Last year, XXL Cloud simply. . . vanished. As did all the data from those who had put their faith in 'The Cloud'. Maier is still around but has yet to say anything about XXL Cloud's disappearing act.

Moral of the story: unless you're dealing with a long-established major service provider of known provenance and massive resources, then trusting your data to the Cloud can turn out to be a risk too far. My cousin now archives locally the data he wishes to safeguard, but it's been a distressing, and expensive, lesson.

MikeR,

Cloud services should be considered a backup, in case you hard drive fails. OR...use two cloud services, in case one fails.

I use Mediafire AND pCloud.

senzai6293, I agree with you (and the others) who agree ,100%. I have collected "free" accounts for the last 10 years! Most offer between 5-10gb of free drive space and some provide opportunities to "earn" more if you get others to join (even for the free accounts). I've experienced at least 3 major companies either go under or drop all their accounts, free or paid. Remember folks, "lifetime" can be a fake word. It is good as long as the company stays in business, or they decide "lifetime" is no longer in their scope of operations.

Cathy,

>Cloud services should be considered a backup, in case you hard drive fails. OR...use two cloud services, in case one fails.
The fault with that statement is when the hard drive fails, and THEN you find that the online backup does not work, or the company has gone out of business. That happened to someone I was helping when SkyhubCloud.com went out of business. Not only was their local hard drive shot, but the online backup (and it was a backup since it was a copy of the local drive data) had disappeared. It was a serious setback that I could not fix.

Like you stated, you need to use at least two cloud services, and hope that one will be around when you need your backup. Of course, the fallacy with this plan is that it makes it doubly expensive, and often times, too expensive for the average consumer to afford.

When the local drive dies, that cloud storage version is no longer a backup; it is the only source ... unless you have multiple backups accessible.

Just the operations of keeping multiple backups up to date can be a hindrance, even when everything is automated. You have to leave your machine on even when you are not using it, and you hope that you don't get hit by a ransomware attack during the time that external hard drives and online connections are going on. It isn't easy anymore!

Nigel, once mail.ru gifted to new users 1tb for free and that was really great gift and i took one for myself. comment by Dima T. from Ukraine. Kyiv.

Dima, there is no way I will entrust any data to a provider from Russia.

Milan, probably better trusting your data with Russia than with somewhere else that Russia is gonna hack anyways someday. If you cant trust a Russian hacker then maybe it doesn't belong on your PC!!

Milan, That is an odd reply, seeing as a lot of software comes out of Russia.
I am curious thou, would you entrust your data to a provider in any other country?

Milan,
SAME for the US the way to GOV "snoops"........keep a few large Thumbs hid udner you mattress.....or buried in your back yard.

Milan, wrong. The only safe place. We still have millions of torrents and sites with hacked programs, books etc. Nobody cares.

Milan, everything changing , you never thought that usa can became similarity to russia ? think about it and one tb is hardly to get for free , i took one and do not regret. i keep there only those files which I do not need on my external drives , it is not something of my personal data so im not worry at all. Plus i dont use smartphones and do not openning strange sites so im not worry about hackers.

Milan, I suppose you're from CzechRep, like one of my best friend. Today you can't hardly trust anyone, be it the Russians, Americans, ...and many other nations. That is the real fact. If you want to be on the safe side with your data, keep one or even two copies on external units and keep them in a safe place. That's what I do. I don't trust any cloud service. Jio