A detailed look at the presentation of folders and files in the Finder, GUI, Terminal, and FileManager in different iCloud options.
iCloud Drive
This free tool can now show iCloud files and folders in place, with info about upload/download errors and more. Invaluable for tackling iCloud issues.
Consistency is an overriding design principle for the human interface. However you use iCloud storage, it adopts different behaviours from those of the Finder. Apple needs to evolve the iCloud interface to improve it, and to empower the user.
New version gives control over whether files are stored locally, monitors individual files and folders, runs a test upload, and gives log access for diagnostics.
How to open an iCloud document, when macOS can’t open it until it has been downloaded: the dog really did eat my homework this time.
How the iOS Photos app may save your PNG screenshot images in JPEG format: one mystery solved, another opened.
When you take a screenshot in iOS, it is saved in PNG format. There is no option. So why do mine come across on iCloud Drive as a JPEG?
How much help does macOS provide for the diagnosis of iCloud problems? What does iCloud ‘throttle’, and what are its ‘budgets’?
Simple tools to preserve versions in documents, whether copied to an external drive, NAS, cloud storage including iCloud and Dropbox, even sent by email.
Support for deep copying of documents, and a tool to preserve versions across iCloud Drive enable you to rely on versions in your work.
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