{"id":10138,"date":"2014-11-25T00:07:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T05:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10138"},"modified":"2014-11-25T00:08:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T05:08:11","slug":"icloud-drive-splitting-folders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/25\/icloud-drive-splitting-folders\/","title":{"rendered":"iCloud Drive Splitting Folders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfaculty.tumblr.com\/post\/102519824251\/the-mysterious-case-of-icloud-drive-and-the\">Drew McCormack<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/mentalfaculty.tumblr.com\/post\/102519824251\/the-mysterious-case-of-icloud-drive-and-the\">\n<p>It&rsquo;s difficult to know exactly what is happening, but it seems iCloud Drive is generating extraneous folders during conflict resolution.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>For many apps, this is no big deal, and may never arise. But if your app stores data at specific paths in iCloud Drive, it could very easily become a problem.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>If you are removing and re-adding folders in your app at a specific path in iCloud Drive, don&rsquo;t be surprised if one day you discover the data is gone, and moved into a second version of the folder at a different path.<\/p>\n<p>I consider this pretty undesirable behavior. No other sync solution I know does this. Dropbox doesn&rsquo;t &mdash; although Dropbox does do something similar to this with files rather than directories &mdash; and the original iCloud file sync also didn&rsquo;t do it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drew McCormack: It&rsquo;s difficult to know exactly what is happening, but it seems iCloud Drive is generating extraneous folders during conflict resolution. [&#8230;] For many apps, this is no big deal, and may never arise. But if your app stores data at specific paths in iCloud Drive, it could very easily become a problem. [&#8230;] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16,913,31,904,30,903],"class_list":["post-10138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-icloud","tag-icloud-drive","tag-ios","tag-ios-8","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-10-yosemite"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10140,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138\/revisions\/10140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}