[MacTUG] iCloud Desktop and Documents in macOS Sierra – The Good, The Bad and the Ugly | Der Flounder

[Matthew Oliver]

I remember reading a similar article regarding Apple Music. Basically the author complained that he turned on Apple Music for the 30-day free trial and it uploaded his music library to the cloud, he used it for a while and when he turned it off it deleted his local music library and he no longer had access to it.


On 2016-09-26, 11:11 AM, "mactug-bounces at lists.uwaterloo.ca on behalf of Marlon A. Griffith" <mactug-bounces at lists.uwaterloo.ca on behalf of m3griffi at uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

    """
    The Ugly
    
    At this point in my testing, I decided that iCloud Desktop and Documents
    was interesting but because of storage limitations, it just wasn’t going
    to work well for me unless I paid Apple far more money for storage than
    I wanted to.
    ...
    
    When you turn off the Desktop & Documents Folder feature in iCloud,
    Sierra recreates empty Desktop and Documents folders in your home
    folder. It’s on you to copy or move your files back from iCloud Drive.
    
    However, that assumes that all of your files and folders made it to
    iCloud in the first place. What if they didn’t? Hopefully they can still
    be found in the Desktop and Documents folders in ~/Library/Mobile
    Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs.
    
    If they’re not, hope you had other backups because those files and
    folders may just be completely gone.
    
    Conclusions
    
    Based on the results of my testing, I have no plans for enabling iCloud
    Desktop and Documents syncing on any of my Macs for the foreseeable
    future. Leaving aside that Apple isn’t offering enough storage space at
    prices I want to pay, the results I saw from my testing of the
    synchronization process did not inspire my trust in it.
    
    https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2016/09/23/icloud-desktop-and-documents-in-macos-sierra-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/
    """
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