{"id":16319,"date":"2016-11-09T13:54:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T18:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=16319"},"modified":"2016-11-11T16:18:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T21:18:18","slug":"replacing-dropbox-with-icloud-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/09\/replacing-dropbox-with-icloud-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Replacing Dropbox With iCloud Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Collin Donnell<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Apple’s strategy has been to present everything as though nothing will ever go wrong with any of their software or services, and so the user doesn’t need a lot of tools to help recover when something does. Because it won’t. Ever.<\/p>\n

All of Apple’s services just feel opaque. iCloud drive isn’t great as far as letting me know the status of my documents. If it did break in some horrible way, I have no trust that I would have a good way to get my stuff back.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

The strange feeling I have is that I’m not moving because iCloud Drive has gotten better<\/em> than Dropbox, or even that it’s gotten as good<\/em>. I’m moving because maybe it’s become sufficient<\/em> for my needs. I’m purposefully not using what’s clearly the best thing on the market, because I think I’m willing to live without some of it’s features. Hopefully it’ll be good enough.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Chris<\/a> Dzombak<\/a>:<\/p>\n

February 2015, I put 1000 small text files in an iCloud Drive folder. Today, there are 999 left.<\/p>\n

I do not trust this system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

UPDATE: 14.txt has been located, in iCloud’s (very well-hidden) Restore Files UI. I have no idea how it was deleted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Previously: Dropbox Modifies TCC.db to Give Itself Accessibility Access<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update (2016-11-09): Arthur A. Sabintsev<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Did this last month - haven’t had problems.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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