OS X Yosemite Launch Brings Fully Functional iCloud Drive to Mac and iOS

I only have one response to the title of this article: "Except When It Doesn't"

Is anyone else having issues with certain folders not showing up on all devices?
Other than that, the sync is great when it works.

mainstreetmark said:

I am able to access iCloud Drive from the finder via a right click and "Open in New Tab....".

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i can do that too bit nothing else. if I try to drag and drop a file nothing happens

This is disappointing. I was expecting that In iOS I could open a PDF or image from some folder of my choosing. Cloud share is what I need and this is lockdown garbage.

avanpelt said:

Go into System Prefs --> iCloud and make sure "iCloud Drive" is turned on.

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Turn it off first, close system prefs then reopen and turn it back on.

This is....

a welcome update.....The cynical part of me still says: Long due....

Spink10 said:

iCloud drive is a good start - maybe in a few years it can replace DropBox.

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well it will once Apple removes everything that mentions DropBox in iOS 9..

Well, that's nice BUT there isn't any iCloud Drive app for iOS. Don't want to use iPhoto on my Mac or on my iPhone to store and view private pics. Hiding photos is useless as the albums are NOT hidden............ unless I missed something??

So, too bad Apple, Dropbox has just gotten a new customer.

byke said:

I cant see how this is any different to iDisk.

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Its a tiny bit faster and has less features.

I use Documents by Readdle to access iCloud Drive and it works great.

danielceleste said:

I only have one response to the title of this article: "Except When It Doesn't"

Is anyone else having issues with certain folders not showing up on all devices?
Other than that, the sync is great when it works.

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That's my problem with it. Everything shows up on the iCloud site, but not everything shows up on my computers. My iMacBook Air Shows a couple more apps showing up than my iMac.

I was a keen user of iDisk and used it quite a lot with little to no problems.
I was hoping iCloud drive would be at least as good, but...

No online file hosting? That was something I used iDisk for a lot.. Picts etc to use in forum posts.. Files I could share with friends/colleagues by giving them a download link..
Maybe that will come later? But for now, this isn't much use to me.

Yosemite killed my logic board.

I installed Yosemite on my late 2008 MacBook Pro. No issues until I shutdown. Now it is dead. Genious said the installation probably stressed the board. Perhaps they should not have allowed it to be installed on older machines. Not happy.

macrushfan said:

I installed Yosemite on my late 2008 MacBook Pro. No issues until I shutdown. Now it is dead. Genious said the installation probably stressed the board. Perhaps they should not have allowed it to be installed on older machines. Not happy.

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I don't get what that has to do with iCloud drive?

Wonder how we will get iCloud on our phones like Apple shows on their site. See attached picture

We just need to do a mass exodus from the iCrap*. Now, on a count of 3, 2, 1...


*I did, follow me!

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WRX-SRQ said:

There is an app called Cloud Drive Explorer. It's free and works like a first party app should, in that it gives you access to your cloud drive, much like Dropbox or Box.

Give it a shot, may solve your issue.

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NEVER use any app that asks for your credentials for iCloud, Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, etc. (except for the apps from the vendor itself). It's like giving a key to your house to some random guy on a street who promises to clean your mess.

So everyone that can't* upgrade to iOS 8 out of luck. Upgrading to iCloud drive will screw their existing iCloud functionality. iCloud still works/worked perfectly on iOS 5 and the old iWork apps.

*edit: Or chooses not to, which is not unreasonable.

samiznaetekto said:

We just need to do a mass exodus from the iCrap*. Now, on a count of 3, 2, 1...


*I did, follow me!

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NEVER use any app that asks for your credentials for iCloud, Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, etc. (except for the apps from the vendor itself). It's like giving a key to your house to some random guy on a street who promises to clean your mess.

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It doesn't (ask for your credentials)

It, like hundreds of others, has access your iCloud Drive, which is what Apple intends should happen.

I really like iCloud Drive, but Apple definitely needs to go further to address the competition and make it more usable.

Here are some of the things I'd like to see sooner rather than later:

1. Family Sharing - Now that we're sharing photos, apps, songs, movies, books, location, calendars, and credit cards with our families we may as well share files as well. I am not sure if this manifests itself in the form of total access to a family member's drive or just a shared folder, but it would certainly be handy.
2. Sharing Links - It seems that Apple is content pushing users to send their files as attachments through various services, but does not have a solution similar to that of Dropbox that allows a user to create a link to a file for download from their drive. Why limit sharing to a send and a receive when it could just be a download by the recipient?
3. Time Machine Backups - Assuming you have the requisite amount of iCloud storage, why not allow users to perform Time Machine backups to iCloud Drive as a standard, integrated feature? Many users are already doing this today via third party cloud backup providers. How many Genius Bar appointments would be saved if users could restore their systems over wi-fi (albeit lengthy) as iOS devices do already?
4. Preview on iOS - If I am out and about and need to look at a document on my iPhone or iPad, I have to open an iCloud Drive-enabled app and dig through the document picker to open the file. A version of Preview on iOS that shows all of my files and allows me to preview any document would be a huge time-saver. There have been rumors in the past of the existence such an app. Maybe next year?
5. A Simple Status Indicator - There are indicators for upload progress in Finder today, but it would be nice to know if iCloud Drive is currently syncing files, is up-to-date, is not connected to the internet, etc.
6. Delete on Device, Keep in the Cloud - If you attempt to delete a file you are met with a warning stating that deleting the file will result in it no longer being available on any device. This is somewhat perplexing since Apple has taught us with iTunes Match that deleting a file on your device leaves the copy in the cloud to be re-downloaded later. In fact, this is one of the core tenants that Jobs preached about when he first introduced iCloud, saying, "the truth is on the cloud."
7. iCloud Drive is the File System - Upon upgrading to Yosemite and iCloud Drive, users are presented with an interesting dilemma every time they want to save something. Do I save a document in iCloud Drive in a folder called "Documents" or in the top-level "Documents" folder in Finder? What is the difference? Why would I not want this document to be stored, synced, and available on my other devices? Eventually, it probably makes sense to promote iCloud Drive to the parent for all files and folders. That is to say, "iCloud Drive" as a location in Finder would cease to exist and all of the current locations would sync into your drive. iCloudBook Air, anyone?

- Thoughts on iCloud Drive

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Overall it is going to be a great solution for novice users that just want to make sure their documents are safe and accessible on all of their devices. Hopefully Apple keeps building upon it.

OS X Yosemite Launch Brings Fully Functional iCloud Drive to Mac and iOS

mdelvecchio said:

but note that you can access ALL of icloud drive from other apps that can work with files of any type. for example, if you open DropBox, hit the "+" to add a new file, you will be presented w/ a file chooser and can pick "iCloud Drice" and from there browse thru all the files just as you were on your mac or icloud.com.



so really access depends on the app and what it wants to do.

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Where in Dropbox do you see iCloud Drive? I click the plus, and when I click on more, only Dropbox is there.

Edit: my bad, operator error.

josephd said:

Where in Dropbox do you see iCloud Drive? I click the plus, and when I click on more, only Dropbox is there.

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Click the plus, then tap "iCloud".

blackcrayon said:

Click the plus, then tap "iCloud".

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Thank you.