{"id":39657,"date":"2023-06-08T20:31:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T00:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=39657"},"modified":"2023-06-08T20:31:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T00:31:25","slug":"icloud-drive-now-supports-file-versions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/08\/icloud-drive-now-supports-file-versions\/","title":{"rendered":"iCloud Drive Now Supports File Versions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2023\/06\/03\/between-undo-and-backups-document-versions\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2023\/06\/03\/between-undo-and-backups-document-versions\/\">\n<p>In almost all cases, &lsquo;cloning&rsquo; a volume also loses all versions in the Document Revisions database, unless the method of duplication creates an absolutely identical copy, with the same inodes and file system.<\/p>\n<p>iCloud is more complicated. There was a time when it didn&rsquo;t support versions at all, then it started to support them but had some serious bugs making them unreliable. Those have been gradually resolved, and iCloud Drive now effectively keeps its own Document Revisions database, making versions available to all Macs and devices accessing them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/21\/mac-backups-and-the-versions-database\/\">Mac Backups and the Versions Database<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/22\/document-versions-and-icloud\/\">Document Versions and iCloud<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/27\/the-macos-versions-management-system\/\">The macOS Versions Management System<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Oakley: In almost all cases, &lsquo;cloning&rsquo; a volume also loses all versions in the Document Revisions database, unless the method of duplication creates an absolutely identical copy, with the same inodes and file system. iCloud is more complicated. There was a time when it didn&rsquo;t support versions at all, then it started to support [&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":"2023-06-09T00:31:27Z","apple_news_api_id":"2a1f165b-01c6-4264-b796-d5b5090b57ac","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-06-09T00:31:28Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AKh8WWwHGQmS3ltW1CQtXrA","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":[913,31,2185,30,694,2223],"class_list":["post-39657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-icloud-drive","tag-ios","tag-ios-16","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-versions","tag-macos-13-ventura"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39657","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=39657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39658,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39657\/revisions\/39658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}