ICloud drive actually backing up files?

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• iCloud drive does not display files or photos. I need to my iBook in the cloud drive files, please help.

  iCloud drive shows the storage used on the files of the iBook and pica, but I can't access via iCloud Drive. Why is this? How can I solve this problem?

  on icloud drive, I have only two files that I saved from my e-mail, but I want to iCloud Drive to synchronize my files to the iBook.

  Anyone?

• Accidentally, I loaded my documents on my drive to icloud.  How can I remove icloud drive and store documents file only on my imac desktop computer

  accidentally, I loaded my documents folder on my desktop imac icloud drive.    What should I do to restore the files to reside on my desktop only?

  Simply drag and drop them in the player iCloud desktop folder.

  You can also learn more about iCloud drive:

  iCloud Drive FAQ - Apple Support

• iCloud drive appears when I want to send a file to, say, Messages, or attach a file to an e-mail.

  How can I make the drive iCloud on my macbook pro (OS X El Capitan, v. 10.11.4) show when I want to send a file that are stored at anyone? Today was Messages which I pop up. Other times, it was in Outlook for Mac or Facebook.

  What I ended up doing today opened the relevant folder on iCloud, select the file and share it. If I try the function "send a file" in the Messages, the drive does not appear. I have visible in the sidebar of Finder, but I can see it only when I'm in = the Finder, not when I use a soft.

  I checked all the settings I can think, looked through the articles of help and FAQ on apple.com, but couldn't find an answer to something that seems simple enough.

  Thanks for any help!

  Messages for OSX is very basic. You cannot navigate to the iCloud drive to get a file to attach.

  You can however, as you can see, push a file to iCloud drive to the Message using the share menu on iCloud drive.

  That is how it is designed. The iOS app is similar, but you can attach a picture here but only from the photo app or the Photos app, once again, not iCloud drive.

• iCloud drive is not download my files on my imac

  Hello

  I have a problem with the iCloud drive and download the files of my iMac.

  I installed on my iMac El Capitan. This is a new install, no upgrades. I reconnect to the iCloud drive and it started to download the files on my iMac. Now, after a couple of weeks ago files that were not completed downloaded. I try to run my account to disconnect and reconnect. But it's not help.  The files are still online in iCloud. But not on my iMac, so I can't open them.

  Hope someone has a solution. Thanks for your help.

  Thomas

  I can understand your terminology, but have you tried signing off iCloud and then reconnect?

  Try to go into System Preferences/iCloud and stop synchronization. Wait a few minutes, then recheck the timing.

• iCloud drive Local Storage Management on iOS

  I can imagine a circumstance in which an iCloud drive may contain enough files to exceed the capacity of storage available for an iOS device.

  1. does anyone know how iOS handles this situation?

  2. in general, are all the files in the iCloud drive copied down for iOS devices, or is it only meta data to iOS show the structure of the disk allowing iOS to download copies of files on demand?

  With Dropbox, you must manually choose which files you want stored locally on your iOS device. I'm guessing that Apple tried to relieve users from having to think about this issue and they designed the iOS to just do the right thing by managing local storage automatically and gracefully.

  Only, they are copied to your device when you open then (with some exceptions). If you start running out of room, your device will delete them intelligently...

• iCloud Drive - stop synchronization files back to the Mac

  Hi all

  OK, so I use OneDrive for my backups online cloud. I used it in my old Windows and Nokia Lumia days before my first iPhone 4S.

  To be honest its pretty * good, everything I do is download all of my digital photos since 2005 in a folder that I call my Photo Vault. These are organized into folders for each month and year and organized. Simple.

  Now one of the best features on OneDrive is that even though I have over 65 GB of Photos stored in the cloud, I can choose on all of my Windows PC or my MacBook in the OneDrive records I want to synchronize with the PC/laptop/iMac/Macbook computer so that I not 65 GB of Photos stored on each device. Logic Yes?

  What is the point of a storage cloud if it synchronizes all your units and their disk space fills. My Macbook Air 128 GB would be filled with my photo library of 11 years.

  So what is my question?

  iCloud drive.

  I have 50 GB to 69P per month. (To be negotiated). Yes but if I want to backup my iTunes library and copy 25 GB in the iCloud drive why must it download it again in my folder of drive iCloud on my Macbook Air that I use to transfer to?

  I can choose individual folders in iCloud drive and say, 'Hey no, I want to store in the iCloud drive and not on this PC/computer laptop/iMac/Macbook Air again?

  For example, the only way I see doing my music at the present time is to move my iTunes folder media in the folder of drive iCloud on the Macbook Air, while I do not have two versions of the same folder.

  Any help with this would be great.

  Thanks in advance.

  iCloud is not a backup system, it is a system of synchronization, so it downloads whatever data is stored there to each computer and device signed in with the same Apple ID. There is no way to download selectively. There is a sync all or nothing.

• Why finder hide Documents and office files in the home directory of the user by activating iCloud drive? What about the behavior of Time Machine backup or third-party applications?

  I'm under MacOS Sierra. I am connected to my iCloud account. I activated the option Desktop and Documents, but I did NOT activate the option optimize Mac storage, because I wanted to make sure that all my files would be available locally, just in case, I would need to work without an internet connection.

  -J' noticed there now a menu iCloud in my sidebar in the Finder, with links to Documents and desktop.

  -J' also noticed that Documents is no longer presented in my favorites in my side bar of the Finder.

  -This last suggests that files saved in 'Documents' are not saved more on my HD... but only in iCloud, which isn't what I want.

  -Then, sailing in the Finder Macintosh HD/users / 'My account' /, I noticed that my Documents and desktop folders are more visible, as if these files are not saved in my home folder most. Which raises the question: where are My Documents and files on my HD, so they are still?

  -Using a shell session in the terminal and again navigate to/Users / 'My account' /, I noticed that my Documents and desktop folders are still there. Which suggest that records and records of office reside actually still in my home folder under users, but Finder actually hide it and present them as being stored in iCloud only disc. It's very confusing.

  This raises several questions:

  -In the first place, why Apple hide Documents and office files in the directory? Why not view these folders in iCloud and directory?

  -Whence the iCloud folder or drive, reside actually on my hard drive?

  -What time Machine. Is it still back up my document files and folders?

  -What games third-party app mirroring backup of My Documents files and folders? They still work properly? (I use Livedrive backup and Sugarsync for files mirrored across several macs).

  -How can I understand that Apple is doing with my folders and files? Some users might be happy with the iCloud drive concept, without worrying about how it works, but I don't take chances, and I want to keep a good understanding about the functioning of my system.

  Could someone explain what is exactly happening?

  With office and selected Documents, access to these files are now in the iCloud Drive, not in your home folder.

  My guess would be that they do not appear in your file because it would be confusing for many people to make them in two places.

  If you want in the Favorites, open iCloud Drive and drag them in the sidebar here.

  All about iCloud drive has been saved on your Mac. With the exception of the office and the Documents, they are in ~/Library/Mobile Documents. However, if you choose optimized storage, older documents are removed from your Mac. I don't know what is "old".

  ~/Documents and ~/desktop have new metadata indicating probably Finder does not display them in a Finder window, only in iCloud drive. They are not hidden in one of the normal methods of unix.

  I have not tested Time Machine or any other backup program. The folder still exist in your directory home, and they still have all the files, I don't think that changes anything.

• Backup of files in TimeMachine iCloud drive

  I just above has migrated to a MacBook 12 '' Air of Macbook using Time Machine and noticed that my 2.4 GB of iCloud drive files are downloaded rather than migrating to the TimeMachine. This suggests that these files are not be saved locally, which is relative.

  Is it true that Time Machine does not back up iCloud locally stored files?

  Apparently, the files are backed up and stored in ~/library/mobile documents based on the following thread:

  Does not save icloud to Time Machine when you create on a Mac

  Indeed, I see my files in there, but I'm confused why these files have not been restored to the new machine and instead the entire library is to be re-uploaded. Fortunately, I had ~ 2 GB, but it would take hours for a larger library.

  Does anyone know if it is possible to restore the Time Machine backup files and let the iCloud to update as needed? It would appear more sensible and more similar to other cloud solutions.

• Is - this time machine back up the record of the iCloud drive in the Finder?

  Background: I recently started using iCloud drive on my iMac with OS X El Capitan 10.11.5. I also continue to use a 3 GB CAP to automatically back up my computer using time machine.

  Discussion: I copied some files more in player iCloud (under Favorites in the Finder) folder to appear on my drive to iCloud. Obviously the synchronization service iCloud provides is great, but I want to that I am also able to backup these files on my time capsule as well for peace of mind, and it would be a nuisance if I constantly have to move files out of the iCloud drive to another location on my computer to make sure that the files are also backed up regularly on the time capsule.

  Question: Time Machine also backs up everything (all types of files - excel, pdf, word, etc.) that I added in iCloud drive folder on my computer?

  Thank you!

  Yes. Time Machine back to iCloud by car, but not where you'd expect.

  Look for the path below in your Time Machine backup...

  

  It's YOURdriveNAME > users > YOURaccountNAME > library > mobile Documents > com-apple-CloudDocs

• Can I back up files with time machine iCloud. Seems not so, are there alternatives?

  I want files on mac, in the clouds and on local separate media seems quite difficult to achieve for a sensible backup plan.

  I looked for solutions and there are various tips on if time machine backup of documents Mobile ~/Library but I can access in time machine.

  Presumably, someone has solved this problem - hopes!

  If you have active disk iCloud it written copies of the files in the cloud on your local disk, these in turn are backed up by Time Machine, you don't need to do anything else to make it work.

  If you need to access your documents using Time Machine backup do you via the Finder > iCloud drive and not in the hidden mobile documents folder.

• Alias files no synchronization in iCloud drive

  I use iCloud drive to keep all my synchronized and accessible files between my Mac and iPad.  I found that the alias files I use in the system do not appear in iCloud.com or other computers.  I use the alias feature to reduce the file size on my computer for my genealogy Articles.

  Does anyone know a way around this or what I could do wrong?

  Thank you.

  Dalmorti wrote:

  I use the alias feature to reduce the file size on my computer for my genealogy Articles.

  ...? How did this the size of the file downwards? Aliases are just a pointer to the original file, to remember anyway. Even if you were able to synchronize alias through with other devices, they are meaningless, unless the file is also present there and in exactly the same directory and structure under the same username as on the first computer (which will not apply on an iPad). I don't know about the specific case of iCloud and alias but another sync service do not handle their property for this purpose, so I would not be surprised to see that they have been blocked.

• El Capitan iCloud drive failure complete the transfer of files on disc from Macbook to iCloud drive

  Product

  MacBook Air. 120 GB with 15 GB of free disk space.

  Connected to the internet via WIFI from Apple Timecapsule, here through to VDSL 40 MB/s in download, 10 MB/s in upload.

  Operating system

  El Capitan 10.11.06

  Describe the problem and include details on what seems to make it.

  The Macbook was working a little slowly. It seemed a good idea to transfer files to the player to iCloud from various places on the Macbook. I created a folder, XXX, within the iCloud drive. I did drag elements of 2200 (displaced), approximately 1.8 GB total for the XXX folder. The files successfully on 15 minutes, no files in the source folder. Disk utility showed that I had lost free disk space, to about 14 GB on the Macbook.

  Use the Finder to open the iCloud drive showed two points of interest:

  • Circle of pie next to iCloud Drive. The pie chart had a white game, with most of the gray.
  • At the bottom of the window in the Finder to iCloud drive notification: 8 items, 15 GB available, download 2 235 elements (1.84 GB 1.94 GB).

  Since the transition to iCloud Drive 18 hours it is, nothing good is felt. Notification of message like above remain unchanged.

  Accessing the iCloud drive through another computer, using iCloud.com on behalf of the Watch:

  • 79 items in the folder XXX (when there should be a more another 2000 points)
  • No element contain subfolders of the folder XXX
  • 4.54 GB available

  Already tried troubleshooting steps

  • Rebooted computer MacBook twice
  • Patiently waited all night for computer complete the download sync on iDrive
  • Use disk utility to repair disk

  No temporary miracle identified.

  Related full exploration of this issue is here (thanks!). The link includes several possible solutions.

  iCloud Drive no local sync

  The main solution, apparently, is "Call Apple Support". I note that there are several recent complaints in the same direction. Maybe something changed with the implementation of iCloud Drive in August 2016?

• Backup files to iCloud drive

  I ran out of space on my MacBook Pro (7.28 GB from 250 GB), and to solve my problem of storage, I leaned in iCloud drive.

  My question is if I save a file in iCloud drive does also save on the hard drive of the device that I save on?

  I did one month trial with iCould Drive 50 GB, but I do not see clear up any space... I do something wrong?

  Thanks for any help you can give!

  Yes, if you add files to iCloud by car they are stored on your hard drive, as a work around, you can disable iCloud drive and access it through your web browser to iCloud.com > iCloud Drive, it does not use your hard drive.

• Once that a file is uploaded to iCloud drive remove it from my hard drive to free up space?

  I want to free up space on the hard drive of my MacBook Pro. Once I have download on iCloud can I delete from my hard drive and still maintain a file of cloud?  Another way to put it: once a file is uploaded to iCloud by car, if I remove my hard drive it will remove automatically iCloud drive?

  Thank you

  David Goldsmith

  [email protected]

  iCloud Drive is a synchronization service. If you delete a file from iCloud, it is removed from iCloud drive and vice versa.

  It is not an effective way to free up space on your MacBook.