When should you turn iCloud off to try to solve syncing problems? What use is a Content Caching server? What tools can help diagnose and fix problems?
iCloud Drive
Its documentation consists almost entirely of how-to recipes. Is there nothing more conceptual so we can understand its apparently random behaviour?
At first it looks like iCloud Drive preserves all xattrs, but actually it cheats and show those stored locally. It’s different when you access the same files from another Mac.
Using local Time Machine backup, iCloud Recovery, and saved versions to recover previous and current versions of files in iCloud Drive, and their limitations.
Why doesn’t Spotlight seem able to return search results for files stored in iCloud Drive? And a strange feature discovered in extended attributes.
Differences between CloudKit and iCloud Drive, what each does, and how it works. New version of Cirrus to test and check iCloud function.
Full details of 27 subsystems in macOS that TCC gave access to CloudKit despite there being no Apple ID or iCloud account.
It’s all too easy to lose all previous versions of a document: one false move to another volume, to iCloud, or shared over a network and they’ve gone. How can you preserve them?
Document versions, accessed through Revert To…, are a major part of the protection macOS provides for dealing with errors. How to get the most from them.
Backing up databases stored in iCloud isn’t easy, particularly if you want to be able to restore them. Making archive copies of important contents is more straightforward, though.
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