I do not care which device stored it there. I want to see what is stored there so I can delete ht I don't need and avoid buying more storage space. Or is that Apple's grand plan - make it impossible to manage document stoage so we just have to keep paying for more and more storage space???
iPhone 5, iOS 6.0.1, hi there
You can view this information from any of your devices that use your iCloud account. Which one would you like to view it from.
You can also view documents from one application or all of them, which way would you like to do it.
That's nice to know. But it does not answer my question: how?
I can't answer until you tell me which of the many ways there are of viewing this information you want to use.
Like I said, I don't care. But, if you insist, let's pick the Mac.
nkfarlow wrote:
Like I said, I don't care. But, if you insist, let's pick the Mac.
You have one iCloud account, it is the same account on all of your devices. But in order to tell you how to access the storage management section YOU have to decide which device you want to use!
On your Mac, go to System Preferences>iCloud>Manage, you will be able to see what is stored on iCloud from there.
As Csound1 said, or simply in finder go to your Mobile Documents folder. That is your local computer's mirror of your iCloud documents & data storage.
This is the obvious place to start, of course. This is the frst thing I did, but tI found no list of documents there.
A Mobile Documents folder sounds like exactly what I'm looking for. I did a search on my Mac for Mobile Documents, but it turned up nothing. There is nothing called Mobile Documents in the Finder's list.
How do I find it?
Click on the desktop, then hold the option key down and click the Go menu, select Library while the option key is depressed.
In future it would be helpful if you noted the things you have already tried, then you won't get asked to do it again.
Don't start fiddling in the mobile documents folder unless you know what you are doing.
On your Mac all documents at once. Open system preferences > iCloud > manage and select one of the document types from the left side and a list of documents will appear on the right side.
On your phone, all documents at once. Open settings . iCloud > storage & back up > manage storage and select one of the document types from the list and a list of documents will appear on the next screen.
Thank you very much. I discovered that when I went to the Mobile Documents folder it looked like they were docs that were put there by other apps, so I didn't mess with them.
What I really needed was to know to click on the Manage button in the iCloud System Preferences, that was the key! 🙂 I just assumed that button was only for buying more iCloud storage space, since it's located next to the usage bar.
Best Regards,
Nancy
nkfarlow wrote:
Thank you very much. I discovered that when I went to the Mobile Documents folder it looked like they were docs that were put there by other apps, so I didn't mess with them.
Best Regards,
Nancy
Yes, since in iOS only a given app can access and use the documents in its own storage space, each app in iOS that can use iCloud documents&data storage creates a subfolder in Mobile Documents for its own specific files.
Every app listed under your manage storage section of your iCloud account settings on your iOS device will have its own folder there.
While you want to be careful messing about in Mobile Documents so you do not loose something you did not intend to, if you understand how iCloud storage works for iOS apps, it is pretty easy to use it to drag and drop files compatible with an app into there to sync them up to iCloud so you can in turn sync them to your app on your iOS device.
I generally use finder and Mobile documents to put things I want on my iOS devices in there appropriate folder - but I tend to only delete things from within the app itself, so there is never any confusion about exactly what file I am removing.
My icloud will not show me a list of my documents in pages and numbers. It just tells me my documents within pages take up 11.4 mb and in numbers a certain amount. Anyone have and idea why?
I want to SEE a list of documents I have stored in iCloud.
