“The full contents of iCloud Drive will be stored on this Mac if you have enough space. This synchronisation becomes more complicated when storage optimisation is enabled, for instance by ticking the box to Optimise Mac Storage in the iCloud section of the Apple ID pane. When you change the copy in iCloud Drive using a different Mac or device, background processes download the changed document to update your local copy. When you make a change in the local copy, background processes upload the changed document to update the copy in iCloud Drive. In this article, I deal only with the first two of those, and defer examination of iCloud’s databases until I’m feeling strong enough.Īt its simplest, documents stored in iCloud Drive consist of two copies, one kept locally, and the other in iCloud.

specially-secured shared databases like Keychain.

shared databases for apps like Contacts and Notes,.

app documents stored in app-specific folders in iCloud Drive,.

user documents stored in user folders in iCloud Drive,.

What appears to be a single cloud service actually handles quite different types of data: The basics of iCloud are complicated enough on their own. In this article, I look at such a collision which can have serious consequences: iCloud and backups. Unfortunately when several systems that just work through illusions are brought together, the result can just fail, and the illusions prevent explanation. In order for things to just work, macOS often creates an illusion, like Time Machine’s local snapshots and backups. g.A lot of macOS is designed to ‘just work’, and generally it does. I was hoping that there would be another way like an advanced re-installation of Dropbox e.

So I did a trial with 3 files and a folder, and copied/replaced them from there into the current local Dropbox folder.īefore the known issues appeared there, but after copying I was able to have again a normal preview as well as a normal access/usage locally, as well as online in Dropbox.īut doing a manually restore for all folders with more than 1000 files and almost 88 GB is way too hard and time consuming. However, I still got a backup/save of the local Dropbox-Folder on a separate disk. Restore previous versions in Dropbox is in most cases not relevant, as almost all of my files are much older than 30 days.įurthermore I'd really like to have the current version of course. The status while mouse hovering is 'Dropbox v1 Updated'.

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