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How can I recover .icloud files?

Is there any way to recover files with the ".icloud" at the end? I passed all my work to a cloud and now I can't access my previous work because of the terminal. This really sucks because I made sure all my work was downloaded and now I've lost it.

Is there any way around it?

The files look like this:

And when I try to open them it looks like this:

MacBook Pro

Posted on Sep 2, 2022 8:00 AM

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Posted on Sep 2, 2022 5:29 PM

Files with a .iCloud extension are placeholders for the actual file and cannot be opened. Those usually appear when you try to copy or move a file that is in iCloud but not on the computer at that time. You’ll want to check iCloud.com to see if the file still exists

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How can I recover .icloud files?

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