Saving documents in iCloud

[Lionel Mandrake]

I used Preview to move some documents to iCloud. Is there any way to reorganize those documents? When I use Preview to fetch them, all I see is a list organized chronologically. That's not how I would do it if I could create folders to hold those documents.

[onehandle]

1. Drag one item onto another to create and name a folder. (Just like in iOS)

Then you can drag other items into the new folder.

In list view control-click the menu bar of the window (where name, date modified etc is) to bring up additional column types you can add, just like in regular finder windows.

That's about the extent of what you can do, organization-wise, with iCloud so far.

[Lionel Mandrake]

2. Thank you.

I did what you said, and it worked.



It is easy to move messages stored by Mail into iCloud. Ditto for Safari bookmarks. Those are the first things I did with iCloud.

You seem to know a lot about the Mac and other Apple products. Your last comment suggests that iCloud is a work in progress. Right now, iCloud seems to be tied to certain applications, which is not how I would organize documents if I had a choice. I wonder if iCloud will ever be as user-friendly for documents as Dropbox. Maybe iCloud is constrained by the need for compatibility with the iPad and iPhone (neither of which I own), which I understand are app-oriented and won't give direct access to files or folders.

[onehandle]

3. Steve Jobs in a friendly meeting personally offered a nine figure offer to the Dropbox people.

They turned him down. With a warm smile he told them that Apple was 'going after their market.'

So yes, I expect to see iCloud's capability to expand.

Your observation about it being limited to work with iOS devices is spot on. I view it as a starting point.

In June Apple will announce iOS 7 to developers. I would expect a somewhat more robust iCloud, which will roll into OS X as well.

FYI, iCloud services work seamlessly across my Mac, iPhone, and iPad. As good as OS X was before, iOS is influencing it in really good ways.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. I recall reading somewhere that Apple had no plans at all to expand iCloud beyond . . . .

. . . . . what it is now. When they went from MobileMe (a capable, if simple, platform) to iCloud they turned the whole thing Apple-centric. MobileMe was actually useful in a Dropbox/SugarSync sort of way.

We've adopted SugarSync to meet that need now that MobileMe is gone. I would suggest it to anyone. iCloud wasn't even close to being useful for non Apple-centric purposes.