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Why can't I download entire folders from icloud.com? It will only allow me to download individual files.

Why can't I download entire folders from icloud.com? It will only allow me to download individual files. My folders have files arranged in sub-folders, and I don't want to have to reconstruct that on my laptop.

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Posted on May 27, 2016 10:55 AM

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Posted on Sep 7, 2017 9:09 PM

Same issue after more then one year. It seems that Apple does not care about creating a professional solution in terms of cloud storage. icloud drive does not sync properly either on windows 10 using their crappy client. They have to learn a lot from competing solutions.

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May 28, 2016 7:37 AM in response to Csound1

Csound1, your first post says the path is, ~/library/mobile folders

Csound1 wrote:


Then you went to the wrong library, The symbol at the head of the line is your home symbol, you probably went to the library at the root of your hard drive.


Go to ~/library/mobile folders, it is a duplicate of the iCloud Drive.


Paste the path into the "Go to folder" option


Your other post says the path is ~/library/mobile documents

Csound1 wrote:


Yes there is, just do as I said and paste that path into the Go To Folder dialog (on the Go menu)

User uploaded file


You can understand why he was having trouble finding the folder


Anyway, even on my system you cannot see the contents of the "Mobile Documents" folder in the Finder. You can however see the contents if you use the terminal.


$ ls -l

total 0

drwxr-xr-x 3 gcerullo staff 102 15 May 09:13 243LU875E5~com~apple~movietrailers

drwxr-xr-x 3 gcerullo staff 102 22 May 2015 3ZAG2EM5L8~com~frogmindgames~dodge

drwxr-xr-x 3 gcerullo staff 102 22 May 2015 8XJ6WJ8Z84~com~chairentertainment~IB2

drwxr-xr-x 3 gcerullo staff 102 8 Dec 19:54 8Z3V4F58RK~com~ustwo~monumentvalley

drwxr-xr-x 3 gcerullo staff 102 24 May 2015 DA33APV56V~com~aetn~aetv~ios~watch

drwxr-xr-x 3 gcerullo staff 102 22 May 2015 F3LWYJ7GM7~com~apple~garageband10

drwxr-xr-x 4 gcerullo staff 136 28 May 10:25 F3LWYJ7GM7~com~apple~mobilegarageband

drwxr-xr-x 3 gcerullo staff 102 10 Apr 03:56 F3LWYJ7GM7~com~apple~musicmemos~ideas

drwxr-xr-x 5 gcerullo staff 170 25 Oct 2015 F6266T9T75~com~apple~iMovie

drwxr-xr-x 3 gcerullo staff 102 22 May 2015 J73TJQ2H74~com~cateater~funapps~stopmotion

drwxr-xr-x 3 gcerullo staff 102 17 Apr 08:36 RZKWAK3484~com~popcap~ios~PvZ2

drwxr-xr-x 3 gcerullo staff 102 23 Jul 2015 W28***8XTF~au~com~minimega~bonza

drwxr-xr-x 4 gcerullo staff 136 25 Oct 2015 com~apple~Automator

drwxr-xr-x 2 gcerullo staff 68 22 May 2015 com~apple~CloudDocs

drwxr-xr-x 10 gcerullo staff 340 15 Feb 15:02 com~apple~Keynote

drwxr-xr-x 3 gcerullo staff 102 22 May 2015 com~apple~Notes

drwxr-xr-x 9 gcerullo staff 306 16 Oct 2015 com~apple~Numbers

drwxr-xr-x 11 gcerullo staff 374 25 Oct 2015 com~apple~Pages

drwxr-xr-x 4 gcerullo staff 136 25 Oct 2015 com~apple~Preview

drwxr-xr-x 4 gcerullo staff 136 25 Oct 2015 com~apple~QuickTimePlayerX

drwxr-xr-x 4 gcerullo staff 136 25 Oct 2015 com~apple~ScriptEditor2

drwxr-xr-x 4 gcerullo staff 136 25 Oct 2015 com~apple~TextEdit

drwxr-xr-x 4 gcerullo staff 136 22 May 2015 com~apple~TextInput

drwxr-xr-x 4 gcerullo staff 136 22 May 2015 com~apple~mail

drwxr-xr-x 3 gcerullo staff 102 17 Sep 2015 com~apple~mobilemail

drwxr-xr-x 4 gcerullo staff 136 22 May 2015 com~apple~shoebox

drwxr-xr-x 4 gcerullo staff 136 22 May 2015 com~apple~system~spotlight

drwxr-xr-x 3 gcerullo staff 102 19 Jun 2015 iCloud~au~com~minimega~bonzanatgeo

drwxr-xr-x 4 gcerullo staff 136 28 May 10:25 iCloud~com~apple~configurator~ui

drwxr-xr-x 6 gcerullo staff 204 22 May 19:22 iCloud~com~apple~iBooks

drwxr-xr-x 4 gcerullo staff 136 21 Mar 20:56 iCloud~com~apple~iBooks~iTunesU

drwxr-xr-x 3 gcerullo staff 102 26 Jun 2015 iCloud~com~apple~itunesu

drwxr-xr-x 3 gcerullo staff 102 17 Sep 2015 iCloud~com~apple~mobilesafari

drwxr-xr-x 3 gcerullo staff 102 22 May 2015 iCloud~com~apple~ncplugin~weather

drwxr-xr-x 3 gcerullo staff 102 15 Jan 21:41 iCloud~com~cateater~funapps~stopmotion

drwxr-xr-x 3 gcerullo staff 102 8 Apr 23:07 iCloud~com~idevices~idevicesconnect~homemetadata

May 28, 2016 8:43 AM in response to Gino_Cerullo

Thanks for the reply. I have no documents in my icloud in finder. I removed them to free up space. They're all on icloud.com, though. I wanted to download a couple of folders to an external drive, but it will only let me download one file at a time. I was hoping there was some way to move entire folders so I don't have to reconstruct them on the external drive.

Why can't I download entire folders from icloud.com? It will only allow me to download individual files.

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