I’ll admit, my point #1 is incorrect. It seems that in fact, iWork apps for iOS can access files outside of their respective folders. When I was testing, I was a little quick to draw my conclusion, as the documents took a while to appear on my iPhone.
Cheers, Grant Sent from mobile On Oct 27, 2014, at 5:41 PM, Grant Hardy <grantha...@outlook.com <mailto:grantha...@outlook.com>> wrote: I think iCloud Drive is very promising. There is some behaviour that I didn’t expect, however. 1. It seems that with the Pages, Numbers and Keynote apps for iOS, you are still expected to store documents in the respective app folders within iCloud Drive. Otherwise, you do not appear to be able to open them on an iOS device. I guess this might not apply to iPads as I’ve only tried this with an iPhone, but if, say, you have a path such as /iCloud Drive/Documents/Notes.pages, that will not show up in Pages for iOS. It needs to be in /iCloud Drive/Pages/Notes.pages. Sub-folders seem to be allowed. 2. If you open a Microsoft Office document in Pages, Numbers, or Keynote for iOS, the document is deleted from iCloud Drive and replaced with an iWork version. This means if you have a Windows PC in the mix you need to be aware that this will happen, as you will lose the original version. 3. Mac OS X Yosemite asks for permission before deleting any file stored in iCloud Drive. This isn’t necessarily bad; it is simply different from the way the Finder works in any other folder. 4. You do not seem to be able to restore previous versions of files or delete files, unless of course you have a Time Machine backup and restore the files that way. I also don’t see any status information about how the syncing is progressing. I have not played around with Drive enough yet to categorically state that these last features aren’t available, but I haven’t found them yet. Cheers, Grant On Oct 24, 2014, at 7:47 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com <mailto:mehg...@icloud.com>> wrote: Hi all, I (perhaps unwisely) use Dropbox as primary storage for my files, with the obvious local backups just in case. However, I'd like to switch to iCloud Drive, so that my files will be more tightly integrated with iOS, and so I can pay for storage with my iTunes account. Before I do, I'd like to hear how others have found the service so far, if you use it. There was that bug that caused some folders to be erased if you did a settings reset on iOS, but aside from that I've heard nothing bad. Still, what do you think? Will you use it now, or wait? If the latter, why? Any accessibility problems (I expect not, but one never knows)? -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com <mailto:mehg...@icloud.com> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
