Mobile Documents Folder Missing in 10.7.3?

I tried this, but it doesn't seem to work....i'm probably doing it wrong, but do you have any other suggestions on how to get it to work? it is soooo frustrating...

I was having the same problem - i could see that ubd was running in Activity Monitor but ~/Library/Mobile Documents wasn't appearing. So following the instruction on this thread, I downloaded Notebox from the Mac App store as it's free and it syncs to iCloud.

After launching it Little Snitch asked me if ubd could connect. Doh!

Make sure that Little Snitch isn't blocking!!!

I to was enjoying the same frustration, but after downloading Notebox and running it, a Mobile Documents folder was added and syncing perfectly. adamrompel thank you for the information.

Thanks, zerojj, for unearthing this trick. It works flawlessly. A few symlinks later and I've got Mountain Lion iCloud integration simulated nicely enough on Lion.

Ok the Mobile Document's folder is there it is just kind of hidden. Open finder then go to "Go". When you have clicked on "Go" then hold down option and the hidden library will show up. Click on this library and you will find Mobile Documents.

^ This felt like the easiest way. 2-3 cllicks, and done.

I tried this and it is working in OS X 10.7.5. Since OS X has bash, I think, a good idea may be to write a sh script and add it to crontab, which will perform this regularly without the need to start the syncing process manually every time.

I tried this. Maybe more experienced users will correct me

Created a file named sync.sh:

#!/bin/bash

if [ "$(ps aux | grep sync.sh | sed -n 2p )" == "" ]; then

while true; do /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Ubiquity.framework/Versions/A/Support/ubd; done &

fi

and a crontab file (any name, e.g. crontab)

* * * * * /path/to/sync.sh

then wrote in terminal

crontab /path/to/crontab

This created a scheduled task that runs every minute and checks whether ubq is running. If it is, it does nothing, otherwise starts the command given by zerojj

The scheduler starts every time the compeuter is turned on. Hope this helps 🙂

PS all paths should start with / (the root folder). Your user's folder is in /Users/, e.g. /Users/woccz2013/

Woccz2013:

You check every minute to see if sync.sh is running. Basically eliminating the possibility of running two instances. The first instance will fork and manually launch ubd in an infinate loop.

Effectively you've manually created a daemon. Why not just use the existing launchd framework as was suggested previously. Launchd is pretty robust and the keepalive key is more effective. It logs and throttles relaunches. You get sockets. You get runlevel integration. You get session type limiting. Really, launchd gives you a lot for free!

Modifying the .plist takes a lot less time and effort than writing a bash script. Ulimatlely if you insist on that much control, then you could create a new .plist launchd wrapper for your script, but in this case - I don't see the benefit of even going that far.

*shrug*

Thanks zerojj!

i was really disappointed that apple didn't allow sharing other documents (like psd.s for example) through icloud.

on one of the computers i'm working on i cannot go any further than 10.7.5 so your method was the most elegant sollution (and the only one truly working).

big up!

I had the same problem (can't go past 10.7.5 on my old computer). I followed zerojj's advice and got the syncing working (thanks zerojj!).

However, iCloud seems to somehow corrupt the documents. I create them on a new computer (latest ML), put them on iCloud the normal way (e.g. pages files via Pages, pdfs via Preview). However, when I go back to my old computer and retrieve them from the mobile docs folder, I cannot open them.

Preview crashes and Pages keeps telling me format is not supported (suffix is pages-tef). I have exactly the same Pages 09 on both computers. I routinely copy fles between computers and they open without problems.

Thanks