Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference to kick off June 10 at 10 a.m. PDT with Keynote address
The Keynote will be available to stream on apple.com, the Apple Developer app, the Apple TV app, and the Apple YouTube channel. On-demand playback will be available after the conclusion of the stream.
The Keynote will be available to stream on apple.com, the Apple Developer app, the Apple TV app, and the Apple YouTube channel. On-demand playback will be available after the conclusion of the stream.
Warning to all: iCloud Drive is DANGEROUS!!
I just upgraded a family Mac to MacOS Sierra.
They asked me to connect my iCloud account, I connected mine instead of my wife's.
Recognizing my mistake, I canceled the iCloud sync to prevent a dangerous merge of folders.
Guess what? The LOCAL folders got WIPED off. I lost ALL my files.
Fortunately I had backups and could restore as was yesterday, but it's a real shame on Apple.
I completely agree with you.
This just happened to me. Lost about 2.4 gigs of data. I was experimenting with iCloud drive and didn't want to actually wait for it to upload 2.4 gigs. I cancelled it, and then all my files were deleted. Just horrible design on Apple's part.
Warning to all: iCloud Drive is DANGEROUS!!
Clarification for all.
No it is not.
Not understanding the implications of your choices is.
And one should never blindly cancel any upload/sync process. Yhere are proper ways to reverse this decision if needed that do not result in data loss.
Yes it IS dangerous. This process is just bad design and bad programming.
iCloud Drive is pushed by default by MacOs Sierra.
Your Apple ID has many different uses: apps, music, [...], and files.
Therefore there should NOT EXIST any path that leads to complete loss of files because of iCloud.
=> Yes iCloud Drive is dangerous.
It is not a default - you are asked the question. You can say Yes or No. You also said Yes to the question of whether you wanted to turn on Desktop & Documents. You said Yes to both.
Your files were not lost because of iCloud Drive but because you stopped a process mid-stream in an attempt to stop a mistake that you made. You selected to use both iCloud Drive and the Desktop & Documents option. How are those choices the fault of iCloud Drive?
iCloud Drive is not new. It has been around since OS X Yosemite. Desktop & Documents is new.
Why don't you just restore from your Time Machine backup?
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Yes it IS dangerous. This process is just bad design and bad programming.
It is estimated there are ~720,000,000 iCloud accounts worldwide.
I think Apple's got this thing figured out.
Sharp knives are dangerous. Running with scissors. Day old sushi. Texting while driving. Not following directions. Not paying attention. All dangerous things.
Therefore there should NOT EXIST any path that leads to complete loss of files because of iCloud.
Absolutely agreed.
However, programmers, designers and developers can't possibly protect users from themselves. There is and was a path to solve your issue without data loss. You chose not to follow it.
Solution: I found the files in my home directory in a directory named "iCloud Drive (Archive)".
(As I mentioned above in a previous post this exact same thing happened to me. Hope this helps others!)
That is triggered by turning of just the Documents and Data option, not iCloud Drive itself. It is a dialog box that comes up as and informs you of what will happen as well.
Ummmmmmmm because it’s a discussion board and you seemed to be discussing the same kind of topic?
OMG, thank you so much for posting this! Wasn't really paying attention and totally made the same mistake as OP. Thought I lost 4GB of video footage. all in the archive. THANK YOU!
Wow thank you so much!!
I lost all my files on my mac too after stopping the sync to iCloud.. The folders are in iCloud but most of them are empty and the original files are permanently gone from my MacBook.
I used TimeMachine to restore my Documents. I have them back now.
iCloud Drive has deleted all my Documents and Desktop folders
