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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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Post by markdown »

lemevi wrote: post #13

Dropbox's event log has saved me so many times. I have recovered pictures of my family that mean a great deal to me. I even get an email if lots of files were deleted, and the API is amazing. That's why I love Dropbox, the file sync is their bread and butter, their core business and not just a feature.

"Dropbox is a feature, not a product" - Steve Jobs

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

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Post by _mikz »

eclipxe wrote: post #29

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201104 >If you need to access a file that you recently deleted, you might be able to recover it from iCloud.com. Sign in to iCloud.com, click Settings > Data & Security, then browse the list of files in the Recover Documents tab. Files will be removed from Recover Documents in 30 days.

Sounds solid. Did someone try it out?

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

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Post by happyscrappy »

glhaynes wrote: post #18
[deleted] wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[deleted]

That's been available for some time via iCloud.com.

@Someone1234 Please don't delete a question that has been responded to.

He asked when iCould would have a web service, which it is has had for a while.

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

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Post by _mikz »

vmarsy wrote: post #23

> Fine. That’s what dragging a file from one place to another generally does! To me this is not fine. Usually dragging from a different device(USB Thumbdrive hard drive, SD Card Thumbdrive, ....) should copy the files, and the cloud should be considered as another device. Could a Mac user confirm if this is the default behavior on Mac devices?

I can confirm that dragging between devices does 'copy' by default. And dragging from iCloud to local drive does 'move' by default.

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

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Post by markjaquith »

eclipxe wrote: post #29

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201104 >If you need to access a file that you recently deleted, you might be able to recover it from iCloud.com. Sign in to iCloud.com, click Settings > Data & Security, then browse the list of files in the Recover Documents tab. Files will be removed from Recover Documents in 30 days.

So, I verified the bug, but this happened to a friend of mine (she lost gigabytes of data). And Apple Support tried to help, and couldn't, and as a consolation prize she got a Thunderbolt external drive. Which was particularly insulting. "We suck so much at handling your data, you should probably do it yourself!"

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Post by agumonkey »

_mikz wrote: post #34
vmarsy wrote: post #23

> Fine. That’s what dragging a file from one place to another generally does! To me this is not fine. Usually dragging from a different device(USB Thumbdrive hard drive, SD Card Thumbdrive, ....) should copy the files, and the cloud should be considered as another device. Could a Mac user confirm if this is the default behavior on Mac devices?

I can confirm that dragging between devices does 'copy' by default. And dragging from iCloud to local drive does 'move' by default.

In general 'modification' by default is bad.

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

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Post by MichaelCrawford »

I have a close friend who is homeless. He synched his iCloud to iPhoto on my Mac.

I later learned that he is a heroin addict. Now he has disappeared. I dont have a clue what happened to him.

I had a look through his photos recently. Only a few came from his time of homelessness. In the others he is far healthier, more muscular and surrounded by friends, family and coworkers.

I resigned in protest from AMCC because I was not permitted to test the driver for their RAID HBAs in the same configuration as they were used by our customers.

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