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

swingerofbirch said:
I've been an Apple user since the 1980s, and this isn't to be snide, but I would never trust iCloud drive to store anything important. Apple shutters their services frequently. I can still access my freeservers.com and tripod data from the 1990s. But Apple has gone through iTools, .Mac, MobileMe, and now two iterations of storage for iCloud. I just don't trust it, and iDisk never worked reliably or quickly compared to Dropbox or Google Drive. iDisk would often crash the Finder. They do some things very well, but Internet services is not one of them (excluding the iTunes Store, which has been reliable for me).
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I was going to mostly agree with you, but then I thought about it. Google is AT LEAST AS GUILTY of wiping out services that people come to heavily rely on. I don't trust anyone or anything out there with anything of importance.

The only way to be sure is regular, local backups on physical media, with extra copies stored off site. Cloud stuff is interesting, convenient, and useful, but anything of igreat importance needs to be local and on something you can touch. There's just no way around it, and there never will be. Not on this planet.

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PJL500 said:
Where's the Yosemite article with the heading: Pre retina-display owners punished with ugly system font?
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I turned off font smoothing which helped -- though now the font looks like it's from some half-assed linux distro lol!!!
 
byke said:
I cant see how this is any different to iDisk.
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iDisk was great, I used it quite a lot, but one difference I've noted is that with iDisk you were allowed to sync a local "blob" so you could access the files when you weren't connected to the internet. I've not seen that functionality with iCloud Drive (yet). Are we that much more connected to "the internets" than we were then that this functionality isn't needed, or will that get incorporated into a future version of the system, or am I merely just an idiot who hasn't seen this is actually working right now as it did then with iDisk.

Regardless, I'm very happy with this feature, can't wait to see more iOS apps supporting it.

Dilster3k said:
Wait was this article posted just to celebrate that something is actually functioning in these new updates?
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Exhausted all your positive comments, or has creativity flown the coop? What I mean is that I find all the negativity on this forum to be so incredibly boring and unimaginative, am I the only one? :confused:
 
swingerofbirch said:
I've been an Apple user since the 1980s, and this isn't to be snide, but I would never trust iCloud drive to store anything important. Apple shutters their services frequently. I can still access my freeservers.com and tripod data from the 1990s. But Apple has gone through iTools, .Mac, MobileMe, and now two iterations of storage for iCloud. I just don't trust it, and iDisk never worked reliably or quickly compared to Dropbox or Google Drive. iDisk would often crash the Finder. They do some things very well, but Internet services is not one of them (excluding the iTunes Store, which has been reliable for me).
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But iCloud Drive syncs to your mac, doesn't it? I wouldn't store the only copy of anything important on anyone's online service. But it's way too useful especially on the locked down model of iOS not to use it, IMO.
 
Can anyone tell me if Office for iPad works with iCloud Drive or is it still OneDrive only?
 
deputy_doofy said:
Apple brings back iDisk, gives it a new name, calls it new.
Microsoft brings back the Start Menu as well as windowed windows (metro apps) and calls them new features.
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And both are far worse implementations than what they started with. :) I can say this even about Windows 10. It lasted three logins of less than 20 mins each before the partition got wiped. Thankfully it was from my developer account and I didn't have to, directly anyway, purchase or pay for it. Lots of room for improvement so far with that, and with this.
 
Same thing?

swingerofbirch said:
I've been an Apple user since the 1980s, and this isn't to be snide, but I would never trust iCloud drive to store anything important. Apple shutters their services frequently. I can still access my freeservers.com and tripod data from the 1990s. But Apple has gone through iTools, .Mac, MobileMe, and now two iterations of storage for iCloud. I just don't trust it, and iDisk never worked reliably or quickly compared to Dropbox or Google Drive. iDisk would often crash the Finder. They do some things very well, but Internet services is not one of them (excluding the iTunes Store, which has been reliable for me).
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Many of those services were the same thing just with different names.

While they took away some services: iDisk and Keychain syncing is back!

While they took away iDisk, they've obviously changed their minds about it. And probably lost a lot a lot of revenue in the meantime with other services getting their users (like DropBox and Box).

They gave us a lot of notice when they canceled iDisk and a decent time frame (a year, or did that just work out with my timing?) and then I believe they (surprisingly) gave another year after that extension at the last minute. I really really missed the keychain syncing when they took that away.

I've been pretty happy with it all so far. I've had issues, mostly with calendar syncing ages ago (5 years ago?), but nothing crucial. I don't ever save my files in only one place I make multiple backups (and synced copies).

And Time Machine helps with that too (when I remember to plug in that drive).

All that said, I don't see me switching everything from my current syncing service and replacing it on iCloud, the only stuff I'll likely keep on iCloud is data from the Apple apps that force me to store it there...

Gary
 
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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this is great thank you so much for recommending it! :)
 
OllyW said:
I've just installed Yosemite and I can't access iCloud Drive from Finder. I've tried clicking the icon but it doesn't respond. :confused:
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I had the same problem. Can't remember what I did to fix it. Either logged out and in again, or more likely signed out of iCloud and back in again. Either way it's working properly now
 
My iCloud drive folder only shows a pages folder.. The screenshot in the article above shows a lot more? Any ideas? Logging onto iCloud through my browser i can see all folders
 
Still can't see any folders under my iCloud Drive on my MacBook, but can see them on the website. It's been nearly 24 hours now and nothing has changed.
 
OllyW said:
I've just installed Yosemite and I can't access iCloud Drive from Finder. I've tried clicking the icon but it doesn't respond. :confused:
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iCloud Drive behaves exactly like any other folder on your Mac. So when you click it, nothing really happens, it just opens the folder. You don't see anything because you probably don't have any files saved in it yet :)
 
I tried iCloud Drive during the beta stages, and stopped using it because it was too slow. Thought apple might have fixed it for final release - but no.

I just copied 1.8GB of files to iCloud drive. Monitoring network traffic, it's transferring at a whopping 200 bytes/second - which by my crude maths gives me an ETA of just under half a year.

Not sure what's causing it to be so slow - my iPhone will happily backup to iCloud, even a fresh backup, in half an hour or so.
 
swingerofbirch said:
I've been an Apple user since the 1980s, and this isn't to be snide, but I would never trust iCloud drive to store anything important. Apple shutters their services frequently. I can still access my freeservers.com and tripod data from the 1990s. But Apple has gone through iTools, .Mac, MobileMe, and now two iterations of storage for iCloud. I just don't trust it, and iDisk never worked reliably or quickly compared to Dropbox or Google Drive. iDisk would often crash the Finder. They do some things very well, but Internet services is not one of them (excluding the iTunes Store, which has been reliable for me).
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You are on to something here. I also have watched many services come and go... and so I'm very hesitant to jump on board to anything. Including iPay. I'll not believe it will be a success until I watch it happen.
I'll likely keep everything set up as I like it in Dropbox for all my business stuff and important stuff... and slowly start using iCloud drive a bit more.
 
so any ideas on how putting dropbox folder into iCloud Drive would perform for the following tasks:
- sharing screenshots
- sharing files to other people via "copy Dropbox link"
- accesessing files from Dropbox
- all other iCloud Drive benefits
 
mdelvecchio said:
speaking of not trusting -- do you trust Dropbox, despite their having accidentally unlocked everybody's accounts that one time? stuff happens. cloud isnt for top secret things you can risk losing.
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Unless i misread him... he was talking about trusting them in the sense of them sticking with the service and using it for a long time going forward. It sucks to jump on board and embrace something, and then they pull the plug on you and drop support. Perhaps he has concerns about that type of trust as well, as in protecting your data.
 
Swazaloo said:
iCloud Drive behaves exactly like any other folder on your Mac. So when you click it, nothing really happens, it just opens the folder. You don't see anything because you probably don't have any files saved in it yet :)
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It didn't work exactly the same as any other folder on my Mac, that was the problem. :p

It's working now after a reboot and I can see my files. If you read through the thread you'll see I was not the only member with the same problem.
 
iCloud Drive is nothing like Dropbox

I don't agree that iCloud Drive is similar to Dropbox. Dropbox is simple, elegant and easy to use. By contrast I have nothing but problems with iCloud Drive after upgrading to Yosemite on my Mac earlier today. iCloud Drive does not behave like other folders on the Mac; it seems to have a life of its own. I got multiple errors with syncing conflicts - in some cases it offered me 4 different versions of the file, supposedly updated on different devices. Some of these files have not been opened for months and the old iCloud never complained once. I have also had problems with some Numbers files. They just refuse to play ball with my iOS devices. They either don't sync up or the relevant app just hangs saying 'updating'.

Another irritating thing is that Apple's iCloud Drive documentation on their web site is all over the place. It is inconsistent, incomplete and inaccurate. One page in particular shows a MacBook, iPhone and iPad all showing the same finder like view of iCloud Drive. Tech support admitted today that this is incorrect, as that particular view is not available on iOS devices.

I appreciate the time Apple has taken to get Yosemite looking just right. It is really a pity that they didn't spend enough time making sure the code underneath was of the same quality.
 
jhc said:
I don't agree that iCloud Drive is similar to Dropbox. Dropbox is simple, elegant and easy to use. By contrast I have nothing but problems with iCloud Drive after upgrading to Yosemite on my Mac earlier today. iCloud Drive does not behave like other folders on the Mac; it seems to have a life of its own. I got multiple errors with syncing conflicts - in some cases it offered me 4 different versions of the file, supposedly updated on different devices. Some of these files have not been opened for months and the old iCloud never complained once. I have also had problems with some Numbers files. They just refuse to play ball with my iOS devices. They either don't sync up or the relevant app just hangs saying 'updating'.

Another irritating thing is that Apple's iCloud Drive documentation on their web site is all over the place. It is inconsistent, incomplete and inaccurate. One page in particular shows a MacBook, iPhone and iPad all showing the same finder like view of iCloud Drive. Tech support admitted today that this is incorrect, as that particular view is not available on iOS devices.

I appreciate the time Apple has taken to get Yosemite looking just right. It is really a pity that they didn't spend enough time making sure the code underneath was of the same quality.
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Isn't 8.1 on Monday supposed to fix this? Just wondering.
 
Is it correct that iCloud Drive syncs everything you store there back to your macs?

It certainly seems like it.

My Mac only has a 128 Gig drive, what am i gonna do? I purchased 200 GB of iCloud storage to be able to store a lot of documents and other stuff I don’t need frequently on there.

But after moving them to iCloud they are still taking up space on my MacBooks HDD?

What gives?
 
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