Understanding how iCloud works, and how files can be downloaded or evicted. Basic tests which are essential preliminaries, and using Cirrus to help.
Bailiff
When I went to change the settings of the menu bar clock, they had vanished. Finding them revealed significant changes coming in macOS 11.
Now runs native on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs, a tiny menu bar tool to download and evict items from iCloud.
Where are the tools for diagnosing and fixing features that don’t always ‘just work’? Turning to look at iCloud.
There are problems with backups of Photos Libraries and evicted items in iCloud Drive. Here are full details.
How to prevent folders from being synced with iCloud Drive, and what happens when you turn Desktop & Documents off could surprise.
Menubar tool to manage files in iCloud. Minor update now checks its own integrity when run, and is compatible with Catalina.
This page is for your support questions and comments on my free iCloud utilities Cirrus and Bailiff. Full […]
Each now built with the latest version of Xcode, and notarized for your added security. Recommended for Mojave users in particular.
Natural language parsing, privacy exploring, update investigating, xattr-tweaking, iCloud poking, log browsing: they’re all here for Mojave.
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