Did my iBooks disappear into iCloud?
I've never used iCloud before last month, when I uploaded a few photos.
During that time, if I recall correctly, I was presented with the option of backing up my iBooks, which I agreed to do.
The thing is I have about 12 GB of iBooks and 5 GB of iCloud storage.
I didn't take the backup seriously, so I thought 5 GB would be okay. It was something to fill the space of my never-used iCloud account.
About one month later, I began to notice that a lot of my books have disappeared when I do searches.
When I checked out the iBooks folder in Finder, there is nothing before a certain date -- when I'm supposed to have years of books added before that date.
Maybe, I thought, the iCloud backup grabbed the files from my iBook folder and deleted them from my hard drive.
So I went to iCloud and the first thing I did was delete the handful of photos I uploaded to make sure that it wasn't the photos taking up 5 GB.
This is now what it looks like:
It shows that I've used of 4.88 GB of my 5 GB, yet I have absolutely nothing on my iCloud Drive.
Here are the other items I'm presented with.
--I've not set up Mail, or contacts, or calender, or photos (the photos that I mentioned earlier were uploaded as files).
There are no notes, no reminders, no pages, no numbers, no keynote, no find friends, nothing that would justify taking up 4.88 GB of space.
So my question is:
What is that 4.88 GB?
Are those my lost iBook files? And if so, how can I access them?
On iBooks, I've set it to "Show iCloud Books." But that doesn't make any difference.
Are those iBook files lost forever*?
(*I did make a backup a month ago, unfortunately it's a backup with the files missing.)
I'm using OS 10.11.6.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)