Bridge and Apple iCloud drive

[Anegada]

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?

[haneadino]

This didn't help me?

Under Library > I have no Mobile Documents?

So I can't find iCloud??

Can anybody help me

[fizzboss@icloud.com]

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. 😞

[fischerj53246896]

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

[Lumigraphics]

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

[Jonathan5C92]

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?

[Lumigraphics]

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.

[fischerj53246896]

That makes sense, but it sounds like the risk applies to saving work to the iCloud folder. Pulling local copies of iCloud files doesn't seem affected by this behavior.

As for iCloud being an Apple product: that might not be at the core of the problem here--but it doesn't help! (Latest iTunes on Windows 10 x64 runs like AOL in 1998.) 

[adavies0706]

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. 

[defaultv5mir3gq6ie4]

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...

[Mesh38872388ok37]

Yes