(MPB 10.13.6)
I've never used iCloud on a regular basis but I this morning I thought I'd have a little go. I was fiddling around and can't quite remember what the message was but it was something really scary like "if you continue, all documents will be deleted from this Mac!" I may have uploaded some documents to iCloud at this point … or not (?) … I really don't know.
Anyway, the desktop went back in time to 2017, which was when I last fiddled around with iCloud. Then, horror of horrors, I could not find my documents. All I could see were the documents that existed back in 2017.
I hunted around in Finder but to no avail. Then I remembered a Word document that I'd created a couple of days ago and entered its name into Spotlight. Lo and behold, up came the document. So although I couldn't find my documents, Spotlight could. (Phew!)
I then used "Get Info" to follow the path and have found them in a folder within iCloud Drive.
With regard to the desktop, this is now called "iCloud Desktop" and it’s the old 2017 desktop. However, anything that I now save to this new desktop is being uploaded – presumably to iCloud. What's more, the desktop that I had before I started to fiddle around is also present in a folder called "Desktop – (My Name's) Computer".
Now, alongside some of the documents in iCloud Drive I see a cloud with a solid outline; alongside others I see a cloud with a dotted outline; alongside others I see no cloud at all. Am I right in supposing that those with no cloud have already been uploaded to iCloud? And those with a dotted cloud are in the process of being uploaded? And those with a solid cloud are waiting to be uploaded?
I trust that the documents that are being uploaded to iCloud will still exist on my MPB in the folder called ICloud Drive. And that they will remain accessible even when I don't have internet access.
There are loads of Word Documents and other stuff on my MPB and at some point I'll run out of space on iCloud. When this happens, I suppose the proceedings will come to a halt and I'll get a note from Apple telling me to buy some more storage. Is this so?
Apologies for the ramble above … it was one of those times when you wish you'd left well alone!
But I'd really appreciate comments from anyone who can put me right.
M
I've never used iCloud on a regular basis but I this morning I thought I'd have a little go. I was fiddling around and can't quite remember what the message was but it was something really scary like "if you continue, all documents will be deleted from this Mac!" I may have uploaded some documents to iCloud at this point … or not (?) … I really don't know.
Anyway, the desktop went back in time to 2017, which was when I last fiddled around with iCloud. Then, horror of horrors, I could not find my documents. All I could see were the documents that existed back in 2017.
I hunted around in Finder but to no avail. Then I remembered a Word document that I'd created a couple of days ago and entered its name into Spotlight. Lo and behold, up came the document. So although I couldn't find my documents, Spotlight could. (Phew!)
I then used "Get Info" to follow the path and have found them in a folder within iCloud Drive.
With regard to the desktop, this is now called "iCloud Desktop" and it’s the old 2017 desktop. However, anything that I now save to this new desktop is being uploaded – presumably to iCloud. What's more, the desktop that I had before I started to fiddle around is also present in a folder called "Desktop – (My Name's) Computer".
Now, alongside some of the documents in iCloud Drive I see a cloud with a solid outline; alongside others I see a cloud with a dotted outline; alongside others I see no cloud at all. Am I right in supposing that those with no cloud have already been uploaded to iCloud? And those with a dotted cloud are in the process of being uploaded? And those with a solid cloud are waiting to be uploaded?
I trust that the documents that are being uploaded to iCloud will still exist on my MPB in the folder called ICloud Drive. And that they will remain accessible even when I don't have internet access.
There are loads of Word Documents and other stuff on my MPB and at some point I'll run out of space on iCloud. When this happens, I suppose the proceedings will come to a halt and I'll get a note from Apple telling me to buy some more storage. Is this so?
Apologies for the ramble above … it was one of those times when you wish you'd left well alone!
But I'd really appreciate comments from anyone who can put me right.
M