On 4/15/19 at 8:45 PM, [email protected] (Greg Raven) wrote:
I just came out of a deep slumber and discovered that there is
a BBEdit folder in my iCloud account folder. I moved my support
files into a new "Application Support" folder there, as
outlined in the docs, but I'm wonder what else might go there?
For example, I have a Sites folder in my user account home ...
a legacy arrangement that even Apple seems only grudgingly to
support. Because these files are outside of the iCloud Desktop
and Documents folders, they do not back up to iCloud.
If I were to move these files to a folder in the iCloud for
BBEdit folder -- say, into a Sites sub-folder -- would my sites
then backup to iCloud?
We do not recommend that you do this.
The OS makes assumptions about the contents of an application's
iCloud container, the worst of which is that *everything* in
there should be opened by that application. So if you double
click on (for example) an AppleScript, the OS will open it with
BBEdit instead of Script Editor. This is arguably a bug, but
it's an intentional decision on the part of the OS (via iCloud
product management, presumably).
This makes the iCloud container barely fit for purpose for
storing the application's support data, and completely unsuited
for web site work.
If you want to share any folder's contents across multiple
machines, we recommend that you use Dropbox, but you could also
use your iCloud Drive documents folder (for example, you could
move your current Sites folder there).
Neither iCloud nor Dropbox should be considered a backup
strategy (in the conventional sense of "data replication in the
service of disaster recovery").
R.
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Someday I'll look back on all this and laugh... until they
sedate me.
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