iCloud Drive (Archive) Finder links changed

Hi, I did for a while stopped syncing with my iCloud Drive. This created the iCloud Drive (Archive) folder in my 'home' on my computer to save a copy of the iCloud Drive. All perfectly normal, but it changed all the links to folders I had on my Finder side bar. Now after reactivating syncing the iCloud Drive (Archive) is still there and all the links still points to folders in that archive not on the iCloud Drive! Very annoying! how to recover the links without recreating everything ... besides I have copied some files by dragging them on the sidebar pointing to a folder in iCloud Drive (Archive) ... and of course asked 'if you do that you'll remove the file from the iCloud' ... I didn't pay attention ..but now understand the problem I have to réconciliateur all these folders (Archived) and syncing. ...arghhh!

Any not painful solution for this?

thanks

Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Feb 8, 2018 2:46 AM

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Eric Root

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Feb 8, 2018 8:25 AM in response to Didonc

What happens if you delete the archive? Make sure you have all your files before trying that.

Didonc Author

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Feb 8, 2018 8:44 AM in response to Didonc

Well! knowing the creation date I looked at the differences and not many files had to be moved around .. so I did.

I used the opportunity to clean a bit my sidebar in the Finder (and to point to the iCloud Drive) so I didn't try to delete first the iCloud Drive (archive) to see if they would reverse to pointing to the iCloud Drive.

Altogether I would have appreciate that when re-syncing in the system would have straightaway repoint to the right folders update the differences and propose to delete that saved archived.

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