How can I upload files to iCloud?

Here's a workaround--open a blank document in Pages. From the Insert menu, select Choose. When the window opens, you will be able to select a pdf file to embed. From there you can save it to iCloud or your hard drive.

Not to mention, photo stream photo sync stopped working earlier this year, and have never been able to get it to work again - so much frustration posted on line with regard to this...you wonder how apple keeps it up...what a convoluted approach to things, even iTunes is a freakin nightmare if you ask me...

think people are starting to wise up, I am migrating a lot of my hardware, smartphone, etc. to sansung...much better platform to base all of your hardware, software and sync of data needs...bye bye apple, it was nice while it lasted...

That's what happens when people use WIndows, Droid and Apple mashups hoping that they will all work for the same service.

As I'm Apple through and through device wise, and always have been, I've never had any issues.

I can happily share illustrations, video's, photos, documents etc... to colleagues through iCloud. I think it's amusing when people are given something, told how to use it yet they do everything BUT use it in the manner it was xD Without iCloud, I wouldn't be able to run any of my businesses.

All of our calendars sync within seconds of one anothers (no matter where any one of us are in the world) our OSX servers gel with it nicely ensuring that Documents are nicely synced everywhere and above all, What are windows users doing whining about it anyway? Apple were kind enough to provide proprietory PC users with a solution that does enough (if they use it properly)...

I don't believe that I've seen microsoft try this for Apple users... COuld the pun be in the 'sour grapes' Microsoft has 😝

Like the original poster, I wanted a general purpose folder on the "cloud" that I could access from various Macs, into which I could place files of any type, and which would automatically keep everything synchronized.

I have found that this is very possible, combining several other tips from around the web, though perhaps not easy. I am using Moutain Lion. I am assuming that you have already activated and signed into iCloud previously. Here are the steps:

1) Create a new folder in the directory that is synced with iCloud. Start by opening a Finder window, and going to the ~/Library/ directory. Do this by typing Shift-Command-G while the Finder is open, and typing ~/Library in the goto window. Next, open the directory "Mobile Documents". Finally, Control-Click inside the Finder and select the "New Folder" option, naming it whatever you like -- I chose "iCloud".

2) Step two is about creating a shortcut to this iCloud folder in the Finder. You cannot directly drag the iCloud folder into the Favorites section of the Finder, but you can do this: Control-Click on your new folder, and select "Make Alias". Now, drag this alias over to your Favories panel in the finder. You will be prompted whether you really want to move the Alias out of iCloud: Say "Yes". Now, delete the Alias -- you don't need the original instance of it any more.

3) Step three is about being able to access this iCloud folder from the Unix command line, and from the Desktop GUI. Open a Terminal window (Launchpad => Other => Terminal). By the way, I recommend putting the Terminal into your Taskbar, if it isn't already. You should be in your home directory ... to verify, type "cd" and press Enter. Now, create a Unix symbolic link (an Alias won't work for this) to the actual location of the iCloud folder:

Type "ln -s ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/iCloud/ iCloud" and press enter. The command should be entered precisely, I recommend cut and paste. The first character is a lower case "L" and there is a space after the backslash between "Mobile" and "Documents". You should now have a symbolic link to the iCloud folder created. To view it in the Finder, go to your home directory: Shift-Command-G, and then enter "~/" into the window. You should see a folder called "iCloud" there, with a little arrow animation in the corner. You can drag this into the Taskbar to have a permanent clickable shortcut. You can also access the contents of this folder through the terminal. From your home directory, just type "cd iCloud" and press Enter. You are now in the iCloud folder (or more properly, your local version of it), and can use the usual Unix tricks ... "ls" to list contents, "mkdir ABCD" to make a new directory called "ABCD", "mv a.txt b.txt" to rename a file "a.txt" into "b.txt", etc.

4) Step four is about accessing this folder on other machines. On a second Mac, repeat all of the steps above *EXCEPT* for creating the New Folder in step 1 ... it already exists, but you can get it into your finder bar, and create sym-links in the same way from there.

The great thing about this is that when you work, you are editing a *local* copy of the file, so you can work offline if you like. Then, whenever you have internet access, the *actual remote* cloud copy of any new or modified files is uploaded. Likewise, updated files are downloaded from the cloud to get your local files into sync. You have the benefit/safety of a local hard copy, AND the portability (and extra safety) of cloud storage. It's exactly what I wanted, and it works like a dream. Plus, time machine can back up your *local* copies, to maintain version history. I'm not quite sure what happens if you try to simultaneously edit a file from two places, but don't do that.

Hope that helps you!

JWSpaceman

For a corporate solution, you would want to look into having a web-based solution. Sharing excel style documents to run a business is not the way to go. For managing inventory, in an ideal situation, you want to login, and see last minute updates, adjust, and have instant reaction on thresholds being met.

Once you have a descent web based solution, in theory, it should not matter which device is being used.

What's the point of maing data transmission inefficient by having to pass around over-bloated files all over the place bursting at the seams with markup?

THis is the next best thing to Portal Document Format... This is Portable DATA Format 🙂 As an Apple developer, coding CoreData isn't one of my favourite tasks, but when I have everything in place, further enhancements etc... are EASY to work with..

Another draw back you're not seeing is concurrency and compatability.

By this I mean:

Concurency) By the way if Machine A is updating dataset C and Machine B is updating Dataset C, data is easily merged to form a common compatible version of the data. THink of how git works.. It doesn't leave WHOLE copies of files all over the place, it merely deals with the changes i.e. in order to become efficient it has to break apart a file into the raw chunks.

Compatability) When you updgrade your package etc... Having raw data to work with is alot easier to make immense changes. i.e. the data can work around the developer... Not the developer working around the data.. Think of some of the 'popular' Word Processing Software on another notorious OS. Those have BIG issues with file intercompatability. Then again, look at how PDF works... Pretty much from one version to the other, there's a flawless migration as PDF files are literally markup (code)...

There's alot more at work here. Apple aren't out there to massage the ego of over-zealous developers, they merely provide the tools for us to make things better. Complaining and whining about it sure isn't putting suggestions in their suggestion submissions ;-)

Not true. You can store PDF files in iCloud using iCloud for Preview, however, they can only be accessed on other Macs.

Upload files to icloud Pages. Now you can only upload files with .doc or .txt or apple pages extensions. So, to get around this here is a trick I came up with and it totally works with .zip / .pdf ./ .jpg and any other extension. Once you log into icloud and go to Pages, open up a DOS window on your computer and nagivate to the folder where your file exist. From there you will change the name of the file you wish to drag into icloud Pages to a .doc extension. So for example, if you have a zip file called Taxes.zip, you want to change this extension to .doc. Here is the DOS command:

"move Taxes.zip Taxes.doc"

Now you will literally see the file on your computer change from a zip icon to the MS Word icon. Again, this will work for any file extension.

Once the file extension has been changed just drag it into your icloud Pages and voilà, your file has been uploaded. Now comes the other slick part. When you want to access this file, just download load it from icloud Pages to any computer, open up a command prompted and change the file extension back to the original file type and there you have it. I have tested this with .zip files and after changing it back the I was able to extract the content with no corruption. The reason this works is because when you save a file type as .doc, Word saves it as an executable file. So if you were to open it up you will see junk characters everywhere just as if you tried to open a pdf, jpeg or any other file type in Word. But once you change it back to the file type that it was created with it's back to normal.

Ps... I would suggest giving placing the original extension in the file name if you are uploaded a bunch of different file to iCloud Pages so that you know what the original extension was when it's time to use the file and change the file type back to what it was. So using the same example as above:

move Taxes.zip Taxes_zip.doc (so I know this file was originally a .zip file type. The naming convention is your choice.)

In case anyone still wonder, there is a freeware called iCloudrive that lets you save files just the way dropbox does, by drag and drop. last version is from April 2013. I'm on Maverick and it works fine.

Kiljoy16's comments are so appropriate.

Everyone complains about how Apple is so bad to force people to do so many terrible things.

And, they just overlook the 1000's of enhancements and improvements...

So, tiring.

geez!

Use pdf max, you Will see all your pdf in ipad Mac and iphone

http://www.mobeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/PDF_Max_User_Guide_v2_1.pdf