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Anegada
Anegada
Participant
November 13, 2014
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Bridge and Apple iCloud drive

  • November 13, 2014
  • 9 replies
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Is anyone using the new iCloud drive? I started only recently and found it working quite well for my tasks. But unfortunately it does not show up in the Bridge, which makes it a bit impractical once you have created a few folders. Especially, when you, like me, use the bridge all the time. So I would appreciate if anyone has any information if this is kind of an issue that is already discussed or that might be changed in the future. Or is there a way to solve it? And last but not least, is it an Apple issue or an Adobe one?

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    Correct answer karfo

    You can find iCloud drive here:

    /Users/your name/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/

    or

    /Users/your name/Library/Mobile Documents/iCould Drive/

    9 replies

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    adavies0706
    Participant
    July 2, 2021

    I created an alias (short cut essentailly) then added that to my desktop or first folder within my finder and that then allowed me to dive right in to the folder that I wanted. 

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      defaultv5mir3gq6ie4
      Participant
      September 5, 2021

      How Did you create the Alias? My right click context menu doesn't include it as a choice the way it appears on almost all the other menus...

       

       

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      Lumigraphics
      Legend
      May 12, 2021

      Its a BAD idea to access your iCloud folder via Bridge and you can lose data that way. Just saying.

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      Jonathan5C92
      Participant
      May 12, 2021

      I don’t doubt that using any Apple product on a Windows machine (or arguably any machine) is a bad idea, but I’m curious why you say that.

       

      How can you lose data by accessing iCloud directories via Bridge?

       

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      Lumigraphics
      Legend
      May 12, 2021

      This has nothing to do with being an Apple product. The same risk exists with Dropbox, OneDrive, etc.

      When you access the cloud folder directly, you are going around the sync machanism. Bridge is not cloud-aware and cannot tell iCloud/Dropbox/etc to do a sync so that the cloud and local copies are the same.

      Let's say the cloud version is current and your local copy is old and hasn't been sync'd. You open the local file, make changes, save, then the cloud software syncs and you either lose the cloud changes (local overwrites cloud file) or you lose the local changes (cloud file overwites local.)

      With cloud-aware software, whren you access a sync'd file, the cloud software checks and updates all copies first. That way you don't lose changes.

      The best thing to do is manually sync or download cloud files before opening them.

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      fischerj53246896
      Participant
      May 11, 2021

      For me, iCloud Photos was found in This PC > Pictures

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      fizzboss@icloud.com
      Participant
      February 3, 2020

      Karfo's answer worked for me:

       

      You can find iCloud drive here:

       

      /Users/your name/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/

       

      However, I made error with transporting folder to Favourites and now my .ai files are .name.ai.icloud.  Grrrh. 😞

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      haneadino
      Inspiring
      December 7, 2018

      This didn't help me?

      Under Library > I have no Mobile Documents?

      So I can't find iCloud??

      Can anybody help me

      tomeegee
      tomeegee
      Participating Frequently
      October 6, 2017

      Resurrecting this string. I am on Premiere on my home computer. I can open the iCloud drive, and see click on my project file. When I open it, it can't resolve the path for the media. In the file menu, I click on my name and Library shows up as a folder on the right, but it will not open. And nowhere in the file menu does iCloud appear anywhere. From the finder I can see all my media files and open them. I can open the Premiere Project file. But I can't put the two together. My work computer they are fine.

      Any help appreciated.

      karfo
      karfoCorrect answer
      Participant
      November 28, 2014

      You can find iCloud drive here:

      /Users/your name/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/

      or

      /Users/your name/Library/Mobile Documents/iCould Drive/

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        rustyjob
        Participant
        November 28, 2014

        Thanks Karfo. I had to go to View->Show Hidden Files to see Library incidentally, but then it was easy to add to my favourites once I had found it once. Great stuff. Thanks again.

        May be it will added automatically by Adobe in a future update - couldn't be that hard to do?

          NovaGiant
          NovaGiant
          Participating Frequently
          May 5, 2015

          Thank you! That worked for me. Now I can relax and get some design projects done.

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          rustyjob
          Participant
          November 24, 2014

          Hi, Yes i too cannot see iCloud or find a natural path to it in iOS and it is a major nuisance. As it is not easy to navigate to without Finder I'd imagine Apple are restricting access. I am going to see if it is hidden in library, but if you solve this post it too!! ;-(

          I see you have also posted this in German ! Was hopeful that was an answer and translated it only to see it was you asking! Never mind...

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