My husband and I have iMacs, iPhones, iPads. We've never subscribed to an iCloud plan. We use DropBox for storing many files (I have a large amount because I tested for them in the beginning.
I routinely delete emails when they are not needed, delete sent mails after a few days, etc. I empty the trash almost every day. We store photos in Google Photos and Amazon photos,
My husband doesn't do this.

Recently he somehow lost many emails relating to an upcoming trip. (It occurred...

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