iCloud on Windows practically useless
How well does iCloud integrate with Windows nowadays
how solid/useful is icloud drive for windows?
How can I change where iCloud for Windows stores photos? : iCloud
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Our family uses iCloud for all of our documents and sharing needs but I have a windows PC to help kill the pain (Play Diablo IV) and I find that the iCloud app is horrific. It often doesn't sync. I can't choose what folders it downloads. I'm not quite sure if it works at all to be honest. Does anyone else have similar issues? I feel like in the past it worked very similar to onedrive but now it is more effective to just use icloud in your browser than have the desktop app. Am I doing something wrong or are you having similar experiences?
I have a Surface computer (windows), a desktop pc (running windows and linux dualboot), an iPhone 11, and an Apple Watch. How well does iCloud and the apple ecosystem integrate with Windows (main) and Linux? Could I use it as a replacement to Proton Drive or OneDrive? I primarily store photos, but also store documents and large media files for filming and work and need to use it offline as I am travelling a lot on my laptop and don't always necessarily have a network. thanks
I currently am an idrive user who backs up about 1TB of data. This data is split between a dozen iphoto libraries on my imac and an equal amount (in size) of music files on my windows computer. These numbers aren't growing much anymore. I use this idrive backup like a safety deposit box, so to speak.
I was considering this year moving to icloud primarily for the drive feature, but also because I have 3 iphone users, and it feels like the cost is similar to idrive but with a lot of extra value for us apple users.
I've been trying to read the documentation for iCloud Drive for pc, and it's hard to tell how well it will replace idrive and how much inconvenience there will be. I'd love some feedback here - and these are the main issues I see (lmk if I'm missing anything):
I'd have to consolidate all of my icloud drive source data to 1 root folder on one PC.
I can't use icloud drive for multiple PCs under my personal account.
Any time I want to do file operations on the local PC's backed up files, I have to start from File Explorer > iCloudDrive (Navigation Pane).
I don't work with these files on a daily or monthly basis, so a few days of work wouldn't be terrible, but I just wonder if I'd be cursing myself for relying on icloud drive for a windows-based solution.