I'd like to begin adding documents to iCloud drive....but don't know how to do it.
I've tried dragging and dropping files in Finder on the iCloud Drive folder....and nothing happens.
Mac mini, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), Intel Quad Core 2.3 GHz i7
Dragging and dropping works for me. Iâve been adding files all day that way. Why it doesnât work for you is a mystery but it DOES work.
Tried it again.....still doesn't work.
Anyone got any ideas?
If you open Finder, click iCloud Drive in the left side bar, then drag and drop to the appropriate folder that shows in the main panel that should work.
This is exactly what I'm doing and it doesn't work. When you drag a file and hover over iCloud Drive....it turns blue.....and when you release the file with your mouse....it just goes back to the folder it came from.
In fact....when I click on iCloud drive.....I see NOTHING there. No files are listed. There should be some files there that used to be in the plain "iCloud".
Really strange.
Any other bright ideas?
Silly question but did you turn on iCloud Drive in the iCloud Preference Panel and configure it? Not trying to be snakry but sometimes itâs the little stuff that stops the show. If iCloud is in fact turned on then try toggling the setting off/on, restart and test.
I'm ready for silly AND good questions! đ Just so I can get it working....
I did turn on iCloud Drive in Preferences (it would not show up in Finder if I didn't....)
The only configuration I see is to turn on all the apps that can store to the cloud....and all are checked. (already were).
Didn't want to turn it off and on, because if you do it erases everything in the cloud and there's already a lot there from iCloud days (without the drive)
Oddly enough....after installing Yosemite on my old MacBookPro last night (2008 version)......I checked and iCloud drive WORKS on it. When I click on iCloud Drive in Finder.....the files stored there appear in the first column....and I can add files to it from Documents by dragging/dropping.
But....on my Mac mini desktop......it STILL doesn't work. When I click on iCloud drive in Finder....nothing happens. If I click Documents, all of it's files show in the first column. Then when I click on iCloud Drive.....nothing happens. It continues to show the previously checked folder (Documents) contents in the first column.
Why is it not working on the Mac mini is the question. The Mac Mini is 2 years old.....and has 16 gigs RAM.
As a test, can you copy and paste a file to the iCloud Drive folder in Finder?
DrDanQ wrote:
I'm ready for silly AND good questions! đ Just so I can get it working....
The only configuration I see is to turn on all the apps that can store to the cloud....and all are checked. (already were).
Didn't want to turn it off and on, because if you do it erases everything in the cloud
Sorry but that is 100% wrong. It will delete all files that are in iCloud from your Mac, it will not delete the originals (the iCloud ones)
Already mentioned that I had tried that.....doesn't work
Okay....the warning makes it sound like it will.....and so I didn't want to do that.
I tried turing off iCloud Drive in Preferences on my Mac mini.....and it still doesn't work.
Click on the iCloud Drive in Finder....and no files appear. It remains showing whatever was selected before iCloud Drive.
I opened iCloud on the web....logged in.....and I see the few folders already there. I tried dragging/dropping files from Finder over to this open window in Safari and the files transferred to iCloud Drive.
So....the question remains....WHY doesn't it work in Finder on my Mac mini?
It's not the most clearly worded warning that's for sure. But it makes sense, once you know what it means đ
Yeah....that's for sure.
Tried another approach. Opened Finder....went to "Go" on the menu bar....selected iCloud Drive.....and it says "the item cannot be completed because it cannot be found."
That's not very reassuring! Why can't Finder "find" iCloud Drive?
I think I'm going to try shutting down the whole computer.....then start it back up again.....and see if that makes any difference.
Can't hurt to try.
Sign out of iCloud completely, reboot and then sign back in and turn the services back on. Do not save anything on the Mac, take the delete option every time EXCEPT for Documents and Data (if it appears), this may lead to duplicated documents but lost documents would be worse. Do you have anything else that can access the drive? an iPad maybe.
How do you add files to iCloud Drive?
