Off topic, because - who else can I tell?
iCloud, once turned on, basically ransoms your data.
It’s ‘in the cloud’, its ‘backed up’, but when you want it back, it will do it’s dangdest to stop you.
yesterday I needed to change my wife’s iCloud from a personal sub to the family one - after all, I am paying for 2Tb and barely scratching it, so why pay a second time?
You can’t just say ‘move her stuff from there to here’
You have to download it, turn off /downgrade iCloud, and then maybe upload again.
But I wanted local copies of the photos, so I downloaded them painfully into a folder.
To stop iCloud synching THAT folder, I added .TMP to the folder name.
Thats supposed to stop synching, yes?
Turned on iCloud and it immediately starts to synch that folder.
Dang.
So I turn off synching and guess what - iCloud deletes the entire folder from my local Mac.
It’s crazy.
Maybe (probably) I misunderstand every nuance of iCloud, but all I want is online storage, which can be set to either copy or offline files and folder that I choose.
External drives remain the sensible option, it seems.
Rant over. Whisky required.
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