FTP iCloud html files to web server transformed into xml Apple preference files and renamed?

recently had to replace several directories on a web server, using local backups also stored on iCloud… later found all the html files in one of a dozen child folders on the server had been renamed with a dot prefix and dot-icloud suffix - for example message.html -> .message.html.icloud

also the contents of all the files had been changed from html markup to xml Apple preference files:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<dict>

<key>NSURLFileResourceTypeKey</key>

<string>NSURLFileResourceTypeRegular</string>

<key>NSURLFileSizeKey</key>

<key>NSURLNameKey</key>

<string>[URL redacted]</string>

</dict>

</plist>

again - this was one folder of a dozen, all html files (no scripts, no images), uploaded using Transmit v5.7.1 on MacOS 10.13.6 High Sierra

where in iCloud is the bug or glitch which caused this?!?

Posted on Mar 24, 2021 11:18 AM

FTP iCloud html files to web server transformed into xml Apple preference files and renamed?

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