What Is Icloud In Iphone
Eden Alvardo
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I am having this same problem and am mystified. I access iCloud drive in Finder on both my Macbook and iMac. On my Macbook, my files seem to sync seamlessly and quickly with iCloud drive (checking with what's showing on iCloud via my web browser). However, on my iMac... most of the files have not synced and I get the "available for download" cloud symbol next to about 75% of my documents. I've been searching for some way to sync these on my iMac, but cant' find any info on this. Help!
There are a couple of posts on this on forum (will try to find links). The following apple support article (link below) has a list of icould icons that are used for your mac to show when it is uploading / downloading files from your desktop and documents to your icloud account (the symbols are extracted below). these are similar to ilcoud music icons
If you want more info on icloud status turn on the "Show Status Bar" option in view menu of Finder - this will let you see all of the documents that are "Pending" (waiting) to upload. Another good option to view status of files is to select "Icloud Status" Column in finder, to select this go to view menu, select "Show View Options [command] J" then [TICK] "icloud status" AND "calculate all sizes"
You can store any type of file in iCloud Drive, as long as it's less than 50GB in size and you don't exceed your iCloud storage limit. That means you can keep all of your work documents, school projects, presentations, and more up to date across all of your devices. Learn more about managing your iCloud storage.
A cloud by itself just means that the item is only in iCloud, so if you were to disconnect from Wifi and go to your iCloud Drive folder, you would not be able to open any items with a plain cloud next to them
What's confusing me is the very fact that there is a "in the iCloud only" icon at all. I don't want my files only in the cloud in the way that I want my music and videos only in the cloud. The latter are massive. But my docs are tiny.
When I make a change to a local file in the iCloud drive folder on one computer, I expect not only the file in the cloud to reflect the changers but I also expect those changes to occur in the local file in the iCloud drive folder on my other computer (and the original one that the changes were made on). I.e., I'm wondering why the file isn't just automatically downloaded (synced?) locally on my iCloud drive folders on my two computers, or automatically synced across all devices. This is the way google drive and dropbox work. They keep all my local files on all my computers in sync perfectly and very quickly. This does not seem to occur necessarily with iCloud drive. In fact, I'm having problems getting files to sync (if that's the right word) at all across all my devices. I never have this problem with google drive or dropbox. So I find the whole iCloud business mysterious and rather sub-standard. So far, it's no great improvement on the old Mobile Me. Apple just seems incapable of handling online storage.
Well thats not an answer really as there are a number of icons and I can not get any info on what they mean. I have no idea when my files are in sync across two computers. One min they have a dotted cloud then maybe a complete line cloud then a progress bar. There is no way of telling me what is going on with any consistency. The very worst thing and the thing that will be making me ask for my money back I have been spending on this is that i can't force sync in any way. They say it does it automatically but it just does not. Sometimes it does ....sometimes it does not.... I keep getting a warning that there are two versions that are not synced when there should not be. WHAT !? Its madness. The only reason I went with them was because dropbox, the best service out there, is much more expensive. Any ideas? cheers
This is a user to user technical support forum, so since you have no questions, there is nothing we can do to help you hear. Invoking Steve Jobs is not going to help you either. The TOU of this forum specifically forbid ranting for ranting sake, so it appears as though your post serves no real purpose at this point.
I have lots of question about the symbols and other obscure notations -- like the word "ineligible" under one large photo file I'm trying to put on the drive. And like others I have files that have been "stuck" for days.
Some people in this thread had said that icon means it is in the cloud and not downloaded, but that's not the case, the file started local to my Mac and it is definitely there I can open it instantly, even if I turn off my internet connection.
But does anyone know what we should do to get the files uploaded? In the chain of icons of uploading files from iCloud to a new mac, where does this small cloud stands? does it mean that sync is still in progress? how long could it take many thanks.
I know it's been a year since this has been posted but since it still shows way up in the search results I'd like to clarify the meaning. Unfortunately, what seemed obvious to you and many of the answers are logical but wrong.
I'm actually switching from DropBox and Google Drive due to lots of technical and customer support issues. I'll continue to back up locally (but definitely not using TimeMachine) and hope that iCloud is solid now and that Apple Support will be better.
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