Or then again, it could simply be a cool trick that won’t receive any official support from Apple. Or, it could be the foundation for an upcoming iWork for OS X update. If you think about it, this could imply the company will offer some sort of iDisk replacement sometime in the future, or build a GUI for syncing documents back and forth between Macs manually. This is interesting because Apple could technically prevent files that don’t belong to a signed iCloud app from syncing across Macs, but decided not to, at least on 10.7.2. So what we have here is a cool hack to use the Mobile Documents folder as a temporary Dropbox-like solution based on iCloud. Clearly, those images didn’t belong to an officially-registered iCloud app (such as Instacast), but the files were synced back and forth between the two machines. Both my iMac and MacBook Air use the same iCloud account, and have Documents & Data on. In a few seconds, those files were synced back to my MacBook Air. In order to follow Mac OS X Hints’ suggestion, I tried to drop a few images directly in the folder – as I’d normally do with Dropbox – using my iMac. As you can see in my screenshot, the Mobile Documents folder contains data and sub-folders for App Store apps that work with iCloud. What’s interesting about this folder when used with two Macs under the same iCloud account is that it provides a basic “drop box” functionality for files that don’t necessarily belong to an iCloud-enabled app. Mobile Documents is the same folder that contains data for apps that already work with iCloud, such as Instacast, iWork, or Galaxy on Fire 2. Sure enough, the Mobile Documents folder is the directory iCloud uses for Documents & Data, a feature available both on iOS 5 and Lion. This is a great way to add folders that others share with you to the Finder sidebar for quick access.Hidden into Lion’s ~/Library (which can be displayed in a variety of ways as we detailed in our Lion review) there’s a Mobile Documents folder that’s capable of syncing files across Macs configured with iCloud, Mac OS X Hints reports. The folder is now one click away in any Finder window. The folder icon appears immediately in the Finder sidebar (see screenshot below): The shared folder is now in the Finder sidebar Now, select File > Add to Sidebar from the Finder menu. The folder shows a “Shared by B Sande” tag. I can easily tell that the folder is the correct one, as I received an email from my wife asking if I wanted to “Open my shared folder”, which added it to iCloud Drive. When I click on this, I find that the folder that my wife shared with me called “Camping Stuff” is in my iCloud Drive (below, highlighted in red): A shared folder in iCloud Drive It’s located in the Finder sidebar under iCloud. The easiest way to find the folder in Finder is to click on the iCloud Drive button. Many times, the new Finder window reveals your “Recents”: A new Finder window open on Recents 2 – Find the Shared Folder in Finder Either click on the “smiling Mac” Finder icon in the Dock, or select File > New Finder Window when Finder is active. 1 – Open a new Finder windowīegin by opening a new Finder window. One of these comes from reader Heath Chester, who asked “Tons of people and articles show how to share, but once my wife has shared her iCloud document folder with me, how can I access it in Finder, so I can add it to the sidebar?” We’re always happy to share knowledge with our readers, so here’s how to do this. Some of our best ideas for “how-to” articles on The Rocket Yard come from suggestions left in the comment section of other posts.
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