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How can upload files to iCloud using the app from an USB device?
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<blockquote data-quote="Gnomac43" data-source="post: 1918926" data-attributes="member: 414907"><p>You answer almost gave me an headache, but it's good stuff, so I'll try again to summarize my needs.</p><p></p><p>Fundamentally, I have a couple of issues, which at the end I believe to have fully understood at this point:</p><p></p><p>1. I need to backup my cloud portion of data, unfortunately photos etc probably won't be exported because I can't find the **** option, which is kind of weird.</p><p>This backup is expected to be the exact cloud content, so from cloud to USB3 disk.</p><p>I would just copy paste or do rsync.</p><p>I didn't quite get the story of tokens, but I do get an idea about it, and in any case, my files are on my M2 SSD too.</p><p>Enabling the storage optimization makes everything worst, but I'll keep it ON to survive, at least for now...</p><p></p><p>2. I was complaining about the disk space, well, nothing I can do about it, iCloud doesn't allow me to download/upload files from other locations rather than the primary M2.</p><p>So:</p><p></p><p>2.1 I can only try to dump all on the M2, making space on iCloud beforehand...</p><p></p><p>2.2 Make a backup of what currently have on the USB3 disk.</p><p>Time Machine would do that too, but I can't trust it, I need a raw/simple solution in case I need to mess up with TM, which I still don't know in the internals...</p><p></p><p>2.3 Buy a MacBook with a disk big enough, but I would need 2TB at this point which is quite expensive... I think that everyone worldwide is running without the WRONG backup solution, I can't believe that everyone purchases 2/4TB M2 in a MacBook and keeps the sync ON...</p><p>I mean, too may traps, too many point of failures and it's very expensive.</p><p></p><p></p><p>3. I'll read that guide you posted, it's quite interesting to see that probably iWork documents, as well as Photos are being synced locally and I'll be able to make a backup.</p><p></p><p>4. For any additional cloud backup like Dropbox, I'd always use a secondary disk, I don't want any software to interact with the file system of the primary M2.</p><p></p><p>P.S.</p><p>Overall, what a **** mess I ended up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gnomac43, post: 1918926, member: 414907"] You answer almost gave me an headache, but it's good stuff, so I'll try again to summarize my needs. Fundamentally, I have a couple of issues, which at the end I believe to have fully understood at this point: 1. I need to backup my cloud portion of data, unfortunately photos etc probably won't be exported because I can't find the **** option, which is kind of weird. This backup is expected to be the exact cloud content, so from cloud to USB3 disk. I would just copy paste or do rsync. I didn't quite get the story of tokens, but I do get an idea about it, and in any case, my files are on my M2 SSD too. Enabling the storage optimization makes everything worst, but I'll keep it ON to survive, at least for now... 2. I was complaining about the disk space, well, nothing I can do about it, iCloud doesn't allow me to download/upload files from other locations rather than the primary M2. So: 2.1 I can only try to dump all on the M2, making space on iCloud beforehand... 2.2 Make a backup of what currently have on the USB3 disk. Time Machine would do that too, but I can't trust it, I need a raw/simple solution in case I need to mess up with TM, which I still don't know in the internals... 2.3 Buy a MacBook with a disk big enough, but I would need 2TB at this point which is quite expensive... I think that everyone worldwide is running without the WRONG backup solution, I can't believe that everyone purchases 2/4TB M2 in a MacBook and keeps the sync ON... I mean, too may traps, too many point of failures and it's very expensive. 3. I'll read that guide you posted, it's quite interesting to see that probably iWork documents, as well as Photos are being synced locally and I'll be able to make a backup. 4. For any additional cloud backup like Dropbox, I'd always use a secondary disk, I don't want any software to interact with the file system of the primary M2. P.S. Overall, what a **** mess I ended up. [/QUOTE]
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