Carbon Copy Cloner 6.1.7
This version of CCC adds official support for macOS 14 Sonoma.
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Added support for temporarily downloading cloud-only files from services like Dropbox, OneDrive and GoogleDrive (any cloud-backed service that uses Apple’s FileProvider interface). This includes support for downloading cloud-only content from iCloud as well, with some minor caveats due to Apple’s use of a proprietary, non-FileProvider cloud-syncing service (oh, the irony!).
Lack of adoption of their own standard leads to some idiosyncrasies when dealing with iCloud cloud-only content. The only notable problem that proved too difficult for us to work around involves bundle files. iCloud uses a single file placeholder for bundle files (vs. dataless folders via FileProvider). This (lack of) structure posed logistical and practical issues that we decided were too costly to resolve, especially in light of the fact that Apple does have plans to migrate iCloud to FileProvider. As such, cloud-only iCloud files that are bundle files will not be downloaded, rather the placeholder file will be copied instead.
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If connectivity is not available or is lost to that host (regardless of the service provider that hosts your cloud-backed content), CCC will suspend downloading activity in the task. We do this because it’s not possible to revoke requests to download files from the cloud. If we plowed through all of the files and requested all of them, iCloud/FileProvider would resume downloading all of those files as soon as connectivity was restored.
Previously:
- SuperDuper 3.8 Beta
- macOS 14 Sonoma Shipping Soon
- Update on Cloud File Provider Extensions
- Carbon Copy Cloner 6.1.3
- ChronoSync 10
- What Time Machine Doesn’t Back Up
