icloud archive folders empty and no originals on icloud drice

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icloud archive folders empty and no originals on icloud drice

As I understand it, the iCloud archive folder is meant to hold a copy of your files when logged out of iCloud drive. The originals remain on the icloud server. It does not sync between them.

So, i have a folder of docs in an icloud archive folder, but most of them are not in icloud.

Furthermore, if I click on the folders in the archive, they are empty. (there is nothing in the recently deleted folder on the web page either.)

This is the second time in as many years that icloud files have disappeared on me, as in Poof! Gone.

Why? Is there any means of recovery?

MacBook Air 13″

Posted on Apr 5, 2024 2:08 PM

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muguy

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Apr 7, 2024 5:31 PM in response to walkingfern

You'll likely need to restore your files from your Time Machine (or similar) backups if the files are no longer extant in iCloud or on your Mac.

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muguy

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Apr 6, 2024 3:42 AM in response to walkingfern

The archive folder does not function as you wrote. All of your files are in iCloud Drive and sync. Files in the archive folder are put there when you turn off iCloud Drive and log out of iCloud on your Mac.

files in iCloud Drive folder are deleted if you erase the file.

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walkingfern Author

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Apr 7, 2024 3:34 PM in response to muguy

hmmm. I thought that was what I said...maybe I misspoke.

My essential problem is that many files are missing from iCloud.

The iCloud archive folder on my mac shows a list of folders.

All of the folders are empty.

A very few of the folders are still on iCloud, but almost all of them have vanished.

Empty folders in the iCloud archive.

The folders and files are not on iCloud.

They weren't deleted.

I don't know what to make of this.

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icloud archive folders empty and no originals on icloud drice

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