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iCloud lost some of my files as well and I never found out what caused it. I store my tax related documents in a folder per tax year. I only ever change this ye
by fauigerzigerk 3y ago
iCloud lost some of my files as well and I never found out what caused it. I store my tax related documents in a folder per tax year. I only ever change this year's tax folder. The folders for previous tax years are frozen for obvious reasons. And yet when I ran find to look for empty folders some of those old tax folders were empty.
I had backups, so the files are not actually gone, but my trust in iCloud Drive is.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoYou have added to my to do list. Do I need to worry about this if I have Time Machine backups?
- ezfe 3y agoNo, if you have Time Machine backups your fine (also if you don't have optimize storage - Time Machine may not back up files that aren't locally stored, regardless of sync provider)
- dominikmayer 3y agoHi, original author here. Not sure about the issue when whole files are gone but regarding content being deleted inside the files Time Machine doesn't help. The problem is that you won't know which files have been changed. And Time Machine will gradually phase out old backups, only keeping one per week, month, year or whatever the policy is. So at some point the files with your content will be gone and only backups of the files without your content will be stored.
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- fauigerzigerk 3y agoProbably not. Time Machine should protect you against the problem I had unless you purge old backups. I don't think Time Machine ever deletes the one and only version it has of a file. But dominikmayer has a very good point there in the sibling comment. I think this would only affect files that change though.