where are the iBooks files stored in el capitan

I have the same question and it has not been answered yet. My Macbook iBooks library shows 50 books and pdfs in it, which I would like to sync to my iPhone. The path iljajj described above: ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks gets me to a directory of 6 books on my Mac, which do sync to my iPhone and iPad, but don't show up in my iBooks app. In other words: I must have two different iBooks directories and I do not know how to consolidate them. I believe the issue I experience may be related to initial installation problems with El Capitan, which messed up my iBooks directory. Can anybody help? Where is my real Macbook iBooks library stored?

Thanks!

Hmmm, interesting.

If iBooks synchronises between my Apple devices, including the iMac, why isn't there an iBooks folder on iCloud drive?

Another question: when I drop a PDF on to the iBooks icon on the icon bar on my iMac, iBooks opens - then tells me that there isn't enough room in my iCloud, would I like to get some more? However, if I open iBooks first I get to see my synchronised folders and I can drag and drop the same PDF into a folder and it's perfectly happy! Moreover, If I check how much memory I have on my iCloud, there's plenty.

Clearly, iCloud doesn't work in the way I think it does, does it? I mean, if we use iCloud, why do our devices need to synchronise via iTunes?

(I know, I've been banging on about how weird iCloud is, ever since it was introduced)

Chris Shaw

I'm noticing something similar after accidentally turning on iCloud Drive for iBooks, and trying to figure out how to undo that:

iBooks *seems* to be showing all of my books (as far as i can tell, there's no total count/number anywhere in the UI to tell how many are listed that I can find), but in that Books folder above only 40-something are listed when I should have many many more than that (like 300 I think). Where are they stored, and why are these ones stored locally? The cloud icon is not present next to any of them in list view in iBooks.

Also, my "Books" and "PDFs" tabs display nothing, but the All tab shows all. ***?

The same happened with me and I am so frustrated! Where are my books and why aren't they on iCloud Drive?? What Is iCloud made for if not to save your files?? The exact opposite happened, once I activated iCloud Drive about 90% of my downloaded books were removed from my iBooks library. furthermore, whatever I download on iBooks afterwards gets removed to iCloud's if I don't use it for a while and I have to redownload it from iCloud! What the heck? Same with photos . why would I want to use the net to redownload anything I saved on my phone when I want to preview it??

I've only managed to find a list of my lost ibooks files on Settings-> iCloud-> manage storage-> ibooks

with only the option to delete them .. Where's restore for God's sake??

at least it means they are saved somewhere but where??

The thing is, ever since I swopped my MacBook for an iPad I've expected it to behave like a computer. In fact, it mostly acts as a marketing device for Apple. Which is why, instead of appearing on the wireless network and linking to my iMac as my laptop did, I have to connect it via iTunes. When iCloud appeared I had high hopes that this would be a simple way of moving files around between devices, but apparently not, as these iBooks conversations demonstrate. At least, when you download a pdf or a photograph or whatever on an iMac, you know that at least it will be in the downloads folder. Happily, using iBooks, Kindle and Overdrive I can usually manage to sit and read with my iPad. Thank goodness we still have paper!

WOW, so they are really lost..

don't you think that i should be asked before my files are deleted , even if to free space??

and that space became full at the first place because of icloud.. it showed that storage is full while on iTunes it showed that I still had space and it didn't get free again until I deactivated iCloud on my iPhone..

why aren't my files on iBooks backed up on iCloud and shown on iCloud Drive?

I don't get what you're saying about reformatting but I don't have a folder of iBooks on iCloud Drive so I still don't know how to reach my books.. In fact, the iCloud Drive app on my iPhone doesnt show anything

christopherfromemsworth wrote:

The thing is, ever since I swopped my MacBook for an iPad I've expected it to behave like a computer. In fact, it mostly acts as a marketing device for Apple. Which is why, instead of appearing on the wireless network and linking to my iMac as my laptop did, I have to connect it via iTunes. When iCloud appeared I had high hopes that this would be a simple way of moving files around between devices, but apparently not, as these iBooks conversations demonstrate. At least, when you download a pdf or a photograph or whatever on an iMac, you know that at least it will be in the downloads folder. Happily, using iBooks, Kindle and Overdrive I can usually manage to sit and read with my iPad. Thank goodness we still have paper!

Not sure what you're talking about. You have to connect to iTunes for what?

You can use iCloud Drive to move files between devices. Or AirDrop. Or iTunes. Or Dropbox. Or any number of other solutions, depending on what you're trying to move where.

If you use iBooks, it has its own way of storing files like any other app. Whether you use iCloud Drive to make your books available across all devices versus using iTunes to sync is totally up to you. Not sure how exactly you're trying to work with the iBooks files, you don't try to access your raw MP3 files outside of Music on your iPad, do you?

I'm sure you are right. Once upon a time filing systems on a computer were open and transparent to the average user; you stored the files where you wanted to store them. Apple clearly didnt want that to be the case with iOS, and this principle seems to have seeped into OSX as well. So we have a sort of hybrid.

Do you trust Apple or any cloud-based system to look after all your files in perpetuity? Not me!

I Was SUGGESTING that they should be "shown" on icloud drive.

I Can't find my books, they're not listed in iBooks with iCloud sign beside them.. They don't show at all

ive backed my phone 2 months ago or so and since then I've added new files to iBooks which I hadn't backed up

IBooks library on my iTunes show only some of the books I downloaded from iTunes store

it's not about trust.. I just want to access my files and have them deleted without my knowledge that's all... these restrictions theI've made may have made it harder for hackers and viruses to attack Apple's devices and software but it also made it extremely hard to transfer files or handle them however I want..

RIght mouse button on file and choose parent directory.