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How Apple’s iCloud Drive deletes your files without warning

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Re: How Apple’s iCloud Drive deletes your files without warning

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> Millions of people use it everyday for professional work, including in film and music studios, where stability and timely performance are much more paramount than for some corporate cubicle running Excel. This can be said about Windows

So? Windows is pretty solid too, after XP, and especially post Vista. The main issue with Windows, if there is one nowadays, is some UI cohenrece, not bugs and stability.

So, it is an irrelevant argument.

Re: How Apple’s iCloud Drive deletes your files without warning

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And iBooks dropped all metadata at some point. The wrong network setting on iTunes nukes all your album art. iCal sync is a cruel joke. The moral is don't use Apple cloud services for anything you care about.

Apple doesn't have the right organizational structure to support cloud services across apps to a level of consistency and quality that Google and Amazon does. Nathan Taylor explains this quite well. http://praxtime.com/2013/11/03/apple-strat-tax-voice-as-god-...

I think this is true, but Microsoft has their own issues. OneDrive for Business will do similar things with the garbage sync client.

Re: How Apple’s iCloud Drive deletes your files without warning

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Sounds like that could be trivially solved by restarting bluetooth. In any case, it's not something that ever affected me.

Trust me, I've tried restarting Bluetooth. It doesn't work. Also, stay classy, downvoters.

Really, totally out of my understanding. Even if you are listing facts, but just because they happen to be against the revered MBP, you get downvoted.

Re: How Apple’s iCloud Drive deletes your files without warning

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I've been using OS X for under a year, and I've run into two major problem that, in my opinion, are completely inexcusable. * Trying to save files in Pages/Numbers, I get an error "Cannot save file. File does not exist." (Well of course it doesn't exist, I haven't saved it yet!) Lost several hours of work multiple times because I couldn't save files. And that is a total shit error message. * Trying to move folders on…

Both of your issues have to do with files, and I'm guessing you have some exotic setup, with the remote server and such. Extrapolating from that experience (which might be entirely to the remote server setup or network issues) is not exactly scientific.

That's the best thing about Windows. It works even for the things that are called 'exotic' in the Mac world (which is a euphemism for 'sloppy programming')
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