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1. #MAC CANT FIND DOCUMENTS ON MAC ONLY ICLOUD ARCHIVE#
2. #MAC CANT FIND DOCUMENTS ON MAC ONLY ICLOUD DOWNLOAD#

#MAC CANT FIND DOCUMENTS ON MAC ONLY ICLOUD ARCHIVE#

Without any of that, I suggest using external drives or making multiple backups of files you archive from your active drives, rather than relying on an incomplete solution from Apple that puts too many eggs in one basket. I find that unclear in its documentation and practices.

#MAC CANT FIND DOCUMENTS ON MAC ONLY ICLOUD DOWNLOAD#

Or you could use a program like Carbonite or SpiderOak to back up offsite, and it could mark files as being archived, which the iCloud sync service could read.Īpple also requires that you pay monthly for storage above the included free 5GB with iCloud, and if you stop paying, you could wind up either having to download all those synced-and-removed files-and lack local storage to do so-or lose access without paying.

That would at least mean there were two copies, one local and one offsite. For instance, the iCloud sync service wouldn’t delete a local copy of the file that was synced to iCloud unless there was a recent Time Machine backup of the file. If Apple integrated this with Time Machine or offered some kind of API for local or hosted backup services it would be great. You can’t back up the file in any other way if it’s not stored on your Mac, because it’s been removed and is stored only in iCloud, and available for download on demand.īecause the best practices for files you want to keep-which should be all your files, really-is to have at least three backups of them (two different kinds of media/location and one offsite), Desktop and Documents doesn’t really meet the bar.That means you’re relying on Apple and its data centers and redundancy for every copy of the file, because… You have a single copy of files if they’re removed from all your connected Macs and only stored in iCloud.This feels like the worst of two worlds instead of the best, and Macworld reader Raja wrote in asking about the backup aspect of it. Files that are stored only in the cloud show a download icon, which you can double-click to download the original file. When storage space is needed, only the files you recently opened are kept on your Mac, so that you can easily work offline.