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I never lost data in iCloud - is this a common occurrence?

by nickpp 4y ago

mikhael28 4y ago
No, they just don't like Apple software and are looking for a reason to ding them. Which, fair, XCode is trash. If they don't think either service is great, they can just run a local media server or use dropbox. Apple doesn't force you to use iCloud, and I personally think it's less obtrusively advertised on the OS than OneDrive. Personally.
- egypturnash 4y ago
  A lot of Apple's stuff Just Works but when it stops working it Just Stops Working, and it majorly sucks because there is so little in the way of diagnostics, buttons to force manual sync, etc. I say this as someone who has been using a Mac as their preferred system since the late nineties.
  - katbyte 4y ago
    Next time try opening “console” and looking at the logs. Usually it’s a deluge of logs but usually shows what is failing even if it doesn’t make sense as to why
- crossroadsguy 4y ago
  What the hell! Never knew even hn had so many fruit company fans that took the company criticism that personally. As if iEvangelism wasn’t enough.
crossroadsguy 4y ago
It isn’t about losing data. It’s more about not knowing what is happening or what is not. For example message sometimes just don’t sync on some devices. Sometimes a 300MB video file is taking just forever to sync with iCloud. Hours! When everything else is working smooth on a 800mbps connection. And you cannot do a thing about it. You write a note on one iPhone and then you don’t see on another for minutes, sometimes hours, or on another Mac. I mean the list is endless. As a matter of fact there’s no versioning either in any of its services that you could verify something. So it’s not about losing data. It’s about not knowing! Not knowing whether you have lost data, or might lose, or anything about it! What makes it worse is Apple making every other apps that you could use instead a third class citizen on their OS. So you have alternatives but you don’t.
- r00fus 4y ago
  Honestly have never had an issue with apps not sharing iCloud data (also I don't put 300MB+ files on iCloud Drive). I do use other file sharing tools that work just fine (1Pass, Google+, etc).

I never lost data in iCloud - is this a common occurrence?

by nickpp 4y ago

I never lost data in iCloud - is this a common occurrence?

No, they just don't like Apple software and are looking for a reason to ding them. Which, fair, XCode is trash. If they don't think either service is great, they can just run a local media server or use dropbox. Apple doesn't force you to use iCloud, and I personally think it's less obtrusively advertised on the OS than OneDrive. Personally.

egypturnash 4y ago
A lot of Apple's stuff Just Works but when it stops working it Just Stops Working, and it majorly sucks because there is so little in the way of diagnostics, buttons to force manual sync, etc. I say this as someone who has been using a Mac as their preferred system since the late nineties.
- katbyte 4y ago
  Next time try opening “console” and looking at the logs. Usually it’s a deluge of logs but usually shows what is failing even if it doesn’t make sense as to why
crossroadsguy 4y ago
What the hell! Never knew even hn had so many fruit company fans that took the company criticism that personally. As if iEvangelism wasn’t enough.

crossroadsguy 4y ago

It isn’t about losing data. It’s more about not knowing what is happening or what is not. For example message sometimes just don’t sync on some devices. Sometimes a 300MB video file is taking just forever to sync with iCloud. Hours! When everything else is working smooth on a 800mbps connection. And you cannot do a thing about it. You write a note on one iPhone and then you don’t see on another for minutes, sometimes hours, or on another Mac. I mean the list is endless. As a matter of fact there’s no versioning either in any of its services that you could verify something. So it’s not about losing data. It’s about not knowing! Not knowing whether you have lost data, or might lose, or anything about it! What makes it worse is Apple making every other apps that you could use instead a third class citizen on their OS. So you have alternatives but you don’t.

r00fus 4y ago
Honestly have never had an issue with apps not sharing iCloud data (also I don't put 300MB+ files on iCloud Drive). I do use other file sharing tools that work just fine (1Pass, Google+, etc).