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  • Re: Mobile Documents Folder

    From Alan B@21:1/5 to RJH on Sat Nov 23 18:01:53 2024
    RJH <[email protected]> writes:

    I'm trying to find out where my documents are stored locally. Copying file attributes (option/command/c) of a file on the iCloud Drive in Finder gives me
    this path:

    /Users/Bob/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/file.txt

    But I can't see the Mobile Documents folder in /Users/Bob/Library/. Any idea why?!

    It's a hidden folder. I can see in the Terminal, i.e.

    cd ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents

    ls -la gives a comprehansive listing of the folder.

    You can also get to it via the 'Go' -> 'Go to Folder' menu and it shows
    the contents of iCloud Drive.

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  • From RJH@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 23 17:47:38 2024
    I'm trying to find out where my documents are stored locally. Copying file attributes (option/command/c) of a file on the iCloud Drive in Finder gives me this path:

    /Users/Bob/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/file.txt

    But I can't see the Mobile Documents folder in /Users/Bob/Library/. Any idea why?!

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  • From RJH@21:1/5 to Alan B on Sat Nov 23 18:32:48 2024
    On 23 Nov 2024 at 18:01:53 GMT, Alan B wrote:

    RJH <[email protected]> writes:

    I'm trying to find out where my documents are stored locally. Copying file >> attributes (option/command/c) of a file on the iCloud Drive in Finder gives me
    this path:

    /Users/Bob/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/file.txt

    But I can't see the Mobile Documents folder in /Users/Bob/Library/. Any idea >> why?!

    It's a hidden folder. I can see in the Terminal, i.e.

    cd ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents

    Thanks - that works.


    ls -la gives a comprehansive listing of the folder.

    Curious - that generates a listing of nothing I recognise, with the most
    recent entry over a year old. For example:

    drwxr-xr-x 7 Bob staff 224 11 Jun 2021 com~apple~Keynote

    Similar with ls - just a list with no recognisable folder or file names. Lots of references with iCloud~com and com~apple.


    You can also get to it via the 'Go' -> 'Go to Folder' menu and it shows
    the contents of iCloud Drive.

    Yes, I've got iCloud Drive in the sidebar, so I can readily see what's in there. If I disconnect the internet I can still access my files, but the
    iCloud Drive syncing is paused. And I can save a file to 'Documents', say,
    when disconnected. What I don't understand it why I can't see the file in Finder (or Terminal) when I disconnect from the internet.


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    Cheers, Rob, Sheffield UK

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  • From Alan B@21:1/5 to RJH on Sat Nov 23 18:48:28 2024
    On 2024-11-23, RJH <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 23 Nov 2024 at 18:01:53 GMT, Alan B wrote:

    RJH <[email protected]> writes:

    I'm trying to find out where my documents are stored locally. Copying file >>> attributes (option/command/c) of a file on the iCloud Drive in Finder gives me
    this path:

    /Users/Bob/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/file.txt

    But I can't see the Mobile Documents folder in /Users/Bob/Library/. Any idea
    why?!

    It's a hidden folder. I can see in the Terminal, i.e.

    cd ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents

    Thanks - that works.


    ls -la gives a comprehansive listing of the folder.

    Curious - that generates a listing of nothing I recognise, with the most recent entry over a year old. For example:

    drwxr-xr-x 7 Bob staff 224 11 Jun 2021 com~apple~Keynote

    Similar with ls - just a list with no recognisable folder or file names. Lots of references with iCloud~com and com~apple.

    Yes I see lots of strangely named items too, some of them clearly referring
    to apps I no longer have installed. I might just investigate out of interest the very oddly named items I do not recognise at all.

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    Cheers, Alan

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  • From Jaimie Vandenbergh@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Nov 26 16:14:20 2024
    On 23 Nov 2024 at 18:48:28 GMT, "Alan B"
    <[email protected]d> wrote:

    On 2024-11-23, RJH <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 23 Nov 2024 at 18:01:53 GMT, Alan B wrote:

    RJH <[email protected]> writes:

    I'm trying to find out where my documents are stored locally. Copying file >>>> attributes (option/command/c) of a file on the iCloud Drive in Finder gives me
    this path:

    /Users/Bob/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/file.txt

    But I can't see the Mobile Documents folder in /Users/Bob/Library/. Any idea
    why?!

    It's a hidden folder. I can see in the Terminal, i.e.

    cd ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents

    Thanks - that works.


    ls -la gives a comprehansive listing of the folder.

    Curious - that generates a listing of nothing I recognise, with the most
    recent entry over a year old. For example:

    drwxr-xr-x 7 Bob staff 224 11 Jun 2021 com~apple~Keynote

    Similar with ls - just a list with no recognisable folder or file names. Lots
    of references with iCloud~com and com~apple.

    Yes I see lots of strangely named items too, some of them clearly referring to apps I no longer have installed. I might just investigate out of interest the very oddly named items I do not recognise at all.

    Remember back in the earliest days of iCloud files, where each app would
    have its own sandboxed file pool but there wasn't a general file
    browser? Those folders are the holdovers from then, still supported.

    Cheers - Jaimie
    --
    "If you can't make fun of it, it's probably not worth taking seriously"
    -- http://survivingtheworld.net/Lesson494.html

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  • From Alan B@21:1/5 to Jaimie Vandenbergh on Tue Nov 26 21:01:13 2024
    On 2024-11-26, Jaimie Vandenbergh <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 23 Nov 2024 at 18:48:28 GMT, "Alan B"
    <[email protected]d> wrote:

    On 2024-11-23, RJH <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 23 Nov 2024 at 18:01:53 GMT, Alan B wrote:

    RJH <[email protected]> writes:

    I'm trying to find out where my documents are stored locally. Copying file
    attributes (option/command/c) of a file on the iCloud Drive in Finder gives me
    this path:

    /Users/Bob/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/file.txt

    But I can't see the Mobile Documents folder in /Users/Bob/Library/. Any idea
    why?!

    It's a hidden folder. I can see in the Terminal, i.e.

    cd ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents

    Thanks - that works.


    ls -la gives a comprehansive listing of the folder.

    Curious - that generates a listing of nothing I recognise, with the most >>> recent entry over a year old. For example:

    drwxr-xr-x 7 Bob staff 224 11 Jun 2021 com~apple~Keynote

    Similar with ls - just a list with no recognisable folder or file names. Lots
    of references with iCloud~com and com~apple.

    Yes I see lots of strangely named items too, some of them clearly referring >> to apps I no longer have installed. I might just investigate out of interest >> the very oddly named items I do not recognise at all.

    Remember back in the earliest days of iCloud files, where each app would
    have its own sandboxed file pool but there wasn't a general file
    browser? Those folders are the holdovers from then, still supported.

    I had completely forgotten about that!

    --
    Cheers, Alan

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