Resolved Autosave folder to iCloud?

[james1758]

Hi all,

My friend has just been through a nightmare scenario, they've had their laptop stolen and all their University work was on it. Luckily they're in their first year... but still.

I want to take steps to prevent this as I am doing my dissertation next year.

Is there a way to save my 'Uni work' folder automatically to iCloud? And have it automatically back up to iCloud whenever a change is detected in that folder? Could I use iCloud Drive for this? Microsoft OneDrive?

All this folder has in are Microsoft word documents (plus a few other random documents) but I want to be safe in the knowledge that if anything happens to my computer all my Uni work will be safe.

Many thanks
James

 

[Gav2k]

iCloud Drive does exactly that also protect your laptop by putting a boot password on it.

 

[ardchoille50]

What I did to be able to automatically sync a file in iCloud was move the folder to ~/Library/Mobile Documents
Then, you can simply open the iCloud Drive folder in Finder and work on your content from there, it will automatically sync changes for you.