Re: Scripting iCloud Drive on Yosemite
Re: Scripting iCloud Drive on Yosemite
- Subject: Re: Scripting iCloud Drive on Yosemite
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 07:55:42 -0400
On Oct 23, 2014, at 5:53 AM, Shane Stanley < email@hidden> wrote:
On 23 Oct 2014, at 8:43 pm, Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden> wrote:
But all of the application-created folders (whether created by OS X applications or iOS apps) are missing. Time Machine does not appear to back them up.
I believe this is a serious omission from Time Machine, and I will report it to Apple as a bug today.
I think it's just smoke and mirrors. If you show ~/Library in list view, you'll see there's no disclosure triangle next to Mobile Documents. You double-click on it, and it shows you the combined Mobile Documents folders. But if you have ~/Library showing and enter Time Machine, when you go back in time, Mobile Documents gains a disclosure triangle. And if you click on it, you'll see those other folders.
By golly, Shane, you're right! Using your suggestion, I actually recovered a file from Time Machine that I had accidentally removed from iCloud Drive yesterday and thought was forever lost. After restoring it in Time Machine, it showed up on iCloud Drive on that machine and immediately synced to my other machines. (It was a Numbers file stored in iCloud Drive's Numbers folder.)
This is an obscure way to have to use Time Machine to recover lost iCloud Drive files, so I fear Apple could remove it out from under us in a future OS X upgrade. I will file a slightly different bug about this, suggesting that Time Machine should show the iCloud Drive files in the iCloud Drive pseudo folder as well as in the ~/Library/Mobile Documents folder. |
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