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<blockquote data-quote="sfam198" data-source="post: 1372807" data-attributes="member: 204618"><p>iCloud doesn't exactly work that way, but I can see why a lot of people are under the impression that it does. Apple hasn't exactly (in my opinion) done a very good job of explaining it.</p><p></p><p>iCloud can't be used as a file source per se, like a network drive in the cloud. It is used as a tool to keep all your data (music, photos, documents, etc) synced up between various devices. The data does reside out there in the cloud, but it is not accessible to your applications (iTunes, iPhoto, etc) until it is synced to your device. The purpose of the iCloud service is to automate all this syncing.</p><p></p><p>When the data is synced to another device it is downloaded from the cloud and stored locally on your hard drive. So for example, you put a photo in iPhoto on your iMac at home, which uploads the photo to iCloud. When you power up your Macbook Air, it downloads the photo automatically from the cloud and stores it in iPhoto on your Macbook Air. The photo physically resides in three places: on your iMac, your Macbook Air and on Apple's iCloud servers. If you get a new device and set it up with your iCloud account (an iPad for example) the data that you are syncing with iCloud will automatically appear on the iPad as well.</p><p></p><p>So to summarize, iCloud is not meant as a supplemental file storage device (like a network folder or external hard drive). It is meant as a way for data to be easily synced up between devices with little or no intervention on your part.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sfam198, post: 1372807, member: 204618"] iCloud doesn't exactly work that way, but I can see why a lot of people are under the impression that it does. Apple hasn't exactly (in my opinion) done a very good job of explaining it. iCloud can't be used as a file source per se, like a network drive in the cloud. It is used as a tool to keep all your data (music, photos, documents, etc) synced up between various devices. The data does reside out there in the cloud, but it is not accessible to your applications (iTunes, iPhoto, etc) until it is synced to your device. The purpose of the iCloud service is to automate all this syncing. When the data is synced to another device it is downloaded from the cloud and stored locally on your hard drive. So for example, you put a photo in iPhoto on your iMac at home, which uploads the photo to iCloud. When you power up your Macbook Air, it downloads the photo automatically from the cloud and stores it in iPhoto on your Macbook Air. The photo physically resides in three places: on your iMac, your Macbook Air and on Apple's iCloud servers. If you get a new device and set it up with your iCloud account (an iPad for example) the data that you are syncing with iCloud will automatically appear on the iPad as well. So to summarize, iCloud is not meant as a supplemental file storage device (like a network folder or external hard drive). It is meant as a way for data to be easily synced up between devices with little or no intervention on your part. [/QUOTE]
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