# Save local and then cloud order

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/save-local-and-then-cloud-order/1725718>\
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Tags:** cloud-variable\
**Created:** [February 10, 2022, 4:36am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/save-local-and-then-cloud-order/1725718 "2022-02-10T04:36:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![overshield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e19b73/32.png) [@overshield](https://community.thunkable.com/u/overshield)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 4:36am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/save-local-and-then-cloud-order/1725718/1 "2022-02-10T04:36:26Z")

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If I’m sending and getting data regularly from the cloud and using blocks like “when variable initializes or changes” is there a best practice eg.  
Save to cloud and then get from cloud?  
Or should I save locally and then update the cloud?

If I do the latter, and I have the when variable… component, won’t I be performing 3 steps instead of 2?  
Because I’ll save local, then save to cloud, then get from cloud.

I’m just wondering if there’s a normal practice that makes the mode sense and is most efficient.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/0/f/0f59f292712368bce16ff80133ae10de8a6f27e8.png) [@system](https://community.thunkable.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2022, 4:36am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/save-local-and-then-cloud-order/1725718/2 "2022-05-11T04:36:31Z")

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