Why the Adobe Lightroom Mobile incident proves that backups are still essential – TechRadar

Just two weeks after Canon’s cloud service lost some users’ images, Adobe has dropped a similar clanger with a Lightroom Mobile update that has wiped some photos and presets.
Unfortunately, the iOS update which has now been succeeded by a new one that fixes the issue  has permanently deleted some users’ data, with Adobe admitting in a recent post that it’s “not recoverable”.
The issue isn’t a hugely widespread one, with the problem only affecting “some customers who updated to Lightroom 5.4.0 …

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