When I go to download a document from iCloud, the option is grayed out. How am I supposed to retrieve a document that I've placed there?
Early 2010 MBP 15", 2009 iMac 24“, 2007 iMac 17", Mac OS X (10.6.7), Fusion 3 running Win 7
Here is some info on documents:
http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/documents.html
I've chosen not to use it right now because I have no iDevices; however, it appears to be intended for iOS and using it with a computer is available as a work-around. I'm not sure that you can, in fact, download something onto your computer as such - I believe it has to go through iTunes (but with my limited knowledge on this, I may be totally wrong). And, before it'll work with a computer, you have to buy the iWork apps for iOS because they are what will work with iCloud - did you purchase them?
I do own iWorks and I'm using iOS 5. It does work very well with Keynote on both the iPad and iPhone, but if I've stored an application in iCloud, I would expect to be able to download it to my computer from wherever I can log in, e.g., wherever I can access a web browser.
Frankly, I'd expect to be able to run it from iCloud and use it as a presentation mechanism if I chose to. If all I was going to do was store it there, I could just as easily use Dropbox, and with better results. If the presentation is, say, done in Keynote, then it is logical to assume I must own the software, therefore I should be able to expect it to "play" on iCloud. I can do that in Google Docs and with Office 365, so I consider it a significant shortcoming of iCloud that I can't do the same. At the very least, I would expect to be able to download the document to my computer to play it locally, but I see that isn't even a option.
From what I've seen the capabilities of iCloud appear to be very limited - and mostly directed towards the instantaneous accessibility of downloaded iTunes/Photo content. The documents part needs some work I think. I set it up with an email, looked around, found that the server wasn't really reliable (they lost my initial 5 emails on the second day), so I'm ignoring it for now (especially since I don't have any iDevices).
How do I download a document from iCloud
