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How The Cloud Is A Time Consuming And Ultimately Inefficient Essay

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wanting to send folders and multiple documents this method can become time consuming and ultimately inefficient. There is an option to zip files when emailing however this only compresses files to a point, some are still too big. An alternate way to saving on the cloud is using Google Drive, which in reality, most students at John Paul II (or at least in my year) do not have a lot of experience with, so generally do not use it. This would be able to securely store larger files. Since we cannot work on some files within the Google interface it would require the file to be downloaded each time it needs to be updated on a different computer. This is one disadvantage which is inefficient but as Google continues to develop more file types may be editable reducing this problem. Personally I prefer the USB for larger files and transferring files in general. However an issue at our school especially within the main computing room there are issues with USB’s connecting so whenever attempting to transfer data onto the school computer to work on it there is an uncertainty whether it will successfully connect or not. The benefits as mentioned above are the USB can transfer large files and load them quickly when USB is connected. An example of this is when working on the internal assessments for digital media or digital information. When working on these assignments there is often a main folder containing many sub-folders with multiple files contained within them. This type of data

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