iOS8 I can't find the iCloud Drive Icon. Where is t?

For nov I actually gave up. Bought Devonthink Office Pro and Devonthink To Go for my iOS devices.

Devonthink is a document management system that simply stores all my emails, .pages, .pdf, .numbers, .png and all other files I need to access.

Imports right from the Mail App and from different folders on my computer. Then syncs via WiFi to my iOS devices. Little bit more work to sync manually but it works and my files are accessible wherever I need them. No sync over internet (yet) but maybe more safe that way. Not sure but this is what I wanted to achieve with iCloud Drive, to have all my files in one spot, regardless of what type of file it is.

I Agree Apple is stupid over this but at this stage I only need a reader for icloud On my iPad or iPhone as I only load new files on my Mac Book Air.

KiwiAdventure wrote:

I Agree Apple is stupid over this but at this stage I only need a reader for icloud On my iPad or iPhone as I only load new files on my Mac Book Air.

What will you open them with?

And I do not agree that Apple is stupid, I wouldn't buy anything from a stupid company, why would you?

Apple is on this and Apple needs their own app for iPad or iPhone iCloud.

All my products are Apple and like them all.

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Once again I'll ask, what type of files are they?

PDF files and if you have a better way of reading these iCloud files then please advise.

Do you not have a pdf reader (for reading pdf files), or a general file reader (there are many).

PDF expertdoes the job for me, there are others.

There's absolutely no need for a file manager for iCloud.

After setting up my brand-new, cherished MacBook Air, I got very frustrated with the iCloud drive thing: I couldn't believe this was the way it was supposed to work (i.e., totally app-centered). Then I was happy to find this thread, and spent a long time reading the posts here in the hope that I was doing something wrong, or that a real solution would come up at some point.

But as it is... all I have left is to register my voice here as one more disappointed user, if ever someone from Apple reads this.

I'm only too glad that, in my initial avidness towards iCloud, I didn't unsubscribe to Dropbox before finding out this problem. So I'll go on paying them 99 dollars a year with a happy smile on my face - because they deliver what they promise, and don't treat you like a five-year-old child who is not allowed to view and organize their own file structure.

Thank God for Dropbox.

iCloud: Email, Contacts, Calendars, Photo Synchronisation, File Storage, IOS Backup, Bookmarks Synchronisation, Notes, Reminders.

DropBox: File Storage, nothing else

Pretty poor substitute really

Csound1 wrote:

iCloud: Email, Contacts, Calendars, Photo Synchronisation, File Storage, IOS Backup, Bookmarks Synchronisation, Notes, Reminders.

DropBox: File Storage, nothing else

Pretty poor substitute really

Unless someone wants... File Storage ?

So maybe, my bad: I thought iCloud was about storing my stuff. How did I get so delusional?

Oh wait, maybe it was this sentence in the Apple site: "Because with iCloud Drive, you can safely store all your presentations, spreadsheets, PDFs, images, and other kinds of documents in iCloud"?

mariaclaraps wrote:

Csound1 wrote:

iCloud: Email, Contacts, Calendars, Photo Synchronisation, File Storage, IOS Backup, Bookmarks Synchronisation, Notes, Reminders.

DropBox: File Storage, nothing else

Pretty poor substitute really

Unless someone wants... File Storage ?

I have 200GB of file storage on iCloud, it works fine for any and all files (PDF's Docs Drawings etc) I care to put in there, just like DropBox. But unlike DropBox it is secure, unlike DropBox Apple do not lie about the security of their system (to Congress no less) and sell your info to mailers.

It also does all those other things, the things that DropBox doesn't.

Nice job of selectively quoting the ad by the way, did you ignore everything before the bit you liked?

iCloud Drive on an iPad:

If you need pictures of the rest of the content (every type of file there is just about) let me know.

Csound1 wrote:

I have 200GB of file storage on iCloud, it works fine for any and all files I care to put in there, just like DropBox. But unlike DropBox it is secure, unlike DropBox Apple do not lie about the security of their system (to Congress no less) and sell your info to mailers.

200GB sounds fantastic, but how do you manage to ever find your files, copy them, move them, etc?

I ask in good faith, hoping again there is still some part of it that I didn't get.

Check my previous post.

I have not had any problems to copy files from and to iCloud Drive. My problems consists only in how they are organized.

I work with legal cases. I want one folder per case - not on folder per filetype.

I also would like to mix different type of files on my folders. Invoice is a FileMaker file, correspondence is .Pages and .pdf, investigations .numbers, and then some normal pics and photos.

I would LOVE to have all my info inside the Apple eco-system but I can not today. Using Devonthink PRO office and are sorting all my files in to a large database, folder by folder for me case by case on my MacBook PRO and then I just synch the entire database with my iOS devices. That way I have all my documents sorted as I want. The negative is that I can not make changes to the database copies on my iOS devices, just read.

But again, I save a lot of cellular data, syncing takes 3 seconds via WiFi and most important - the files stay in the folder I want them regardless of filetype.