iCloud, once turned on, basically ransoms your data.
It’s ‘in the cloud’, its ‘backed up’, but when you want it back, it will do it’s dangdest to stop you.
yesterday I needed to change my wife’s iCloud from a personal sub to the family one - after all, I am paying for 2Tb and barely scratching it, so why pay a second time?
You can’t just say ‘move her stuff from there to here’
You have to download it, turn off /downgrade iCloud, and then maybe upload again.
But I wanted local copies of the photos, so I downloaded them painfully into a folder.
To stop iCloud synching THAT folder, I added .TMP to the folder name.
Thats supposed to stop synching, yes?
Turned on iCloud and it immediately starts to synch that folder.
Dang.
So I turn off synching and guess what - iCloud deletes the entire folder from my local Mac.
It’s crazy.
Maybe (probably) I misunderstand every nuance of iCloud, but all I want is online storage, which can be set to either copy or offline files and folder that I choose.
External drives remain the sensible option, it seems.
AIs don’t lie, they technically just hallucinate proposing things. After that, they say sorry when informed that what they said was something stupid, exclude the previous route, and try something new (that can be stupid again, who knows…)
In reality, they should be fed with curated content from the trainers. Apple did a lousy job feeding it. AIs try to extrapolate something to achieve an answer, and that may be dangerous.
I think the same developers that worked on iCloud must have worked on MS Onedrive. I don’t appreciate Onedrive “managing” my files for me because it moves them around and then if you uninstall Onedrive you get to experience the joy of copying them back to local drive over the internet.
I swear, if I meet the guys who thought that one up, I will not be held accountable.
Its only a matter of time before they are made illegal.
They are so dangerous
I share much of your thoughts towards the people who designed OneDrive on Windows. //sarcasm alert// They seem to share “best practices” with the Apple folks. //end sarcasm alert//
Apple, Microsoft, Google, just keep copying each others revenue exploiting ideas and consumers be damned.
To avoid having to download your OneDrive content after signing out tick the option, “Always keep on this device.” When you sign out the local copy is left in place but the shell redirections are (or should be) reset. You can find the local files in \users\username\OneDrive\documents and move them to \users\username\documents and so on. However File Explorer at this stage is a confusing mess.
I actually went back to Linux after discovering my files were not where I put them. That angered me to no end.
I now run Windows in VirtualBox as needed and I am very happy with Ubuntu.
This caught a lot of people out when Apple auto enabled “Desktop and Documents” in iCloud, turning it off deleted your desktop and documents. Since it did it to me, I don;t trust any cloud service with my important files, I have multiple local backups instead.
