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Subject: Re: [OM] Amazon cloud drive
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 14:44:45 -0500
As a result of your question I decided to try Amazon Cloud Drive. I wasn't impressed.
To your specific question it cannot display ORF files but does recognize 
them as photo files.  If you have a Prime membership as I do the storage 
for ORF files is free as it is with other photos.
When I logged on for the first time it asked if I wanted to start Cloud 
Drive whenever I logged on to Amazon.  I decided to accept that.  After 
seeing it I decided I didn't want to do that but found no way to change 
it.  Then I decided I'd just delete the Cloud Drive and be done with it. 
 No way to do that either.
Uploading files was mysterious.  Granted, I didn't play with it for very 
long but did not see a way to upload a single file.  It seemed like it 
only wanted to move entire folders.  When I thought I was moving a 
single file (an ORF) it instead uploaded the entire container folder and 
its 2 sub-folders. But it did take the ORFs as well as the JPEGs. 
Display of file names is lacking.  Well, many things are lacking I think.
But if you have Prime and just want a free place to stash stuff you can 
use it for that.
Ugh!

Chuck Norcutt


Good human factors are not a feature.

On 3/1/2016 9:19 AM, Paul Braun wrote:
Anyone here had an experience backing up ORF files to the Amazon photo
cloud thingy?

I'm tempted to start so I have another redundant backup location, but
according to their help page, they only recognize RAW files from C*non,
N*kon and S*ny,

They do say, however, that "this is not a comprehensive list".  Since I
shoot only in RAW, it would severely limit its usefulness if it won't
recognize ORF.

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