iCloud Drive in Finder of OSX 10.6.8

[Bensdad1]

Hello All,
I am hoping someone out there can help resolve a problem I have regarding the use of iCloud Drive on my elderly Imac running OSX 10.6.8. I have been accessing my iCloud Drive via Finder quite happily for almost a year, but a few days ago the hard drive went pop and I had to have a new drive and OSX installed. Since then I cannot find a way of getting iCould Drive inserted into the finder's Sidebar. I know that 10.6.8 is not supposed to be compatible, but as I was able to get it working last time (I can't remember but presumably after finding a solution on the web) I cannot understand why, after hours of searching this time, I can find no information at all on how to do it.

Any advice or information would be greatly appreciated.

 

[chscag]

Welcome to our forums.

Do you have a backup of your older hard drive? Time Machine worked just as well with Snow Leopard as it does now with High Sierra. If you have a backup, restore from it and your iCloud drive should appear.

Also, do not overlook something simple: Open Finder, select Preferences, select Side Bar. Make sure that iCloud drive has a check mark (selected).

 

[ferrarr]

I was able to find this, https://macmanus.nl/2012/07/23/fixe...ally-unsupported-osx-snow-leopard-sync-works/

 

[Raz0rEdge]

While that machine might be elderly, it can likely be upgraded to El Cap at least. That will give you iCloud without the hacks and also ensure that recent apps will continue to work. Most updated apps use 10.10 Yosemite as a minimum requirement. While El Cap isn't getting security updates, being newer it has updates that your 10.6.8 Snow Leopard machine doesn't have and it's always good to be as new as possible.

 

[pm-r]

While that machine might be elderly, it can likely be upgraded to El Cap at least.

If it's a Early 2006 family iMac it's limited to Maximum MacOS: X 10.6.8 per everymac.com.

As for some possible options for the OP, maybe go through some of the hits from here:
https://www.google.com/search?clien...ive+in+Finder+of+OSX+10.6.8&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

I know I got parts of iCloud sort of half-assed working with my SL, but I'm sure I didn't do anything elaborate like the directions URL posted but I didn't do much with it.

If I recall, it also used the old Apple security method before their current 2FA method and it may not be accessible any more to get it working. But I'm not sure.

Apple may also be restricting "un-supported" Finder use access as well lately with all their "security" things. But I'm not sure.

Maybe just use the browser access method which isn't exactly ideal even if and when it does work.

And no, I'm sure not a fan of Apple iCloud and the ways it may or may not work… or not!!!





- Patrick
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[Bensdad1]

First, thanks to all who have responded. It's reassuring to know that there is so much speedy help out there.

I did not run backups, do I suppose I deserve all I got. (I have set Time Machine running now - closing the stable door etc., but it should stop any more horses bolting.)

It seems El Capitan will not go on this machine.

I've tried the link provided by one of the responders but no luck I'm afraid - I had been there before and not found the answer.

I can access iCloud Drive easily through a browser, and that is good, but having to download for editing, then remembering to upload the edited version after ditching/renaming the original, is a bit of a pain - which of course I don't have to suffer when using my Windows machines. I do not need to synchronise with iCloud, I just need to be able to open and work with files directly from the iCloud Drive, just like any other drive. What really bugs me is that I cannot find any instructions on the web for getting the iCloud Drive to show in Finder, knowing that I have done it once successfully in the not too distant past.

Thanks again for all your responses. I will stay optimistic on the basis that the answer is out there somewhere.

cheers

 

[pm-r]

I can access iCloud Drive easily through a browser, and that is good, but having to download for editing, then remembering to upload the edited version after ditching/renaming the original, is a bit of a pain -

It sounds like you need a copy of Dropbox.app for what you're doing, but I couldn't find a copy of the Dropbox v. 2.2.8 that was so useful and worked with SL.

The latest is for 10.9+.

Maybe they could send you an old version and worked better than Apple's iCloud IMHO!!!

https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/28731/dropbox
https://www.dropbox.com/pro?_tk=sem...pbox-pro&_kw=dropbox|e&_ad=290831296308|1t1|c





- Patrick
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