Comments on: How to Access iCloud Documents From the Mac OS X Finder

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:52:22 +0000

I made a series of alias files and then organized them into a new folder setup in my documents. It’s not idea, but it’s easy to grab files that I need without having to decipher GUID information.

In my documents folder I setup a directory called iCloud, and inside that setup Pages, Numbers, etc. – I then created a bunch of alias files to the document folders for each of the Mobile Documents app folders and placed them inside.

Works great.

By: Marco Berrocal

Marco Berrocal — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 23:25:07 +0000

Same here. I have a Mobile Safari.

Not very fond of Lion, but the machine I am on is like 4 years old.

By: bug276

bug276 — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 20:28:11 +0000

I don’t have the “Mobile Documents” folder either, am on Lion 10.7.5, did you ever work it out??

By: Stuart

Stuart — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:05:15 +0000

I did it differently…I launched the application that had the file I wanted to email- it brought up the window with all of my iCloud documents…then I dragged and dropped the doc into the body of an email message.

By: Sergey

Sergey — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 20:56:56 +0000

Try to go File->Add to Sidebar
or just Command+T

By: Will

Will — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:30:12 +0000

How do you do this when there isn’t a Mac equivalent of the iOS app? Or in a different app, for that matter.

Consider Downcast on iOS. There is icloud sharing, presumably to sync between an iPhone and iPad. However, I want to access the OMPL for some reason. There’s no Downcast for Mac.

Or (my real scenario), on my iPhone I using iA Writer. On my Mac, I’ll use either Mou.app or Sublime Text 2. I know I could purchase iA Writer for Mac, but I already have n text editors. And, I like how Mou will preview compiled Markdown alongside the plain text, or I am already working in ST2.

Is the only course of action to use a hidden folder with poorly named subfolders?

By: yomamma

yomamma — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 23:59:45 +0000

Same here using Lion. No “Mobile Documents” folder. Help please.

By: David

David — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 16:30:33 +0000

So I Command-Shift-G and input path to Library but I have no “Mobile Documents” folder or anything named that.

Wasup?

By: Gareth Chidgey

Gareth Chidgey — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 10:55:04 +0000

Thankyou… exactly what I was looking for. I couldn’t work out how to get a Numbers sheet into an email I had written, drag and drop works great from these folders.

I’m on Mountain Lion and had to create the alias for it to work too.

Good tip on versioning too, thanks again.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:34:53 +0000

Tried this and it worked! You do have to create the alias to get it into the favorites, but then yes, you can put about anything there and get at it with another Lion or Mtn. Lion mac on the same Apple ID.

Took an MS Office doc and dropped it into the folder on my work computer, opened it up at home.

By: Stuart Hertzog

Stuart Hertzog — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:37:46 +0000

Making an alias and dragging it into the sidebar didn’t work for me on an iMac running Mountain Lion.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:52:10 +0000

Can you access these folders from anywhere like Dropbox? If so, how?

Thanks

By: Liang Qi

Liang Qi — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 08:13:27 +0000

Yes, same with Rick and Michael. And the alias way works.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 04:49:35 +0000

Same here.
I then created an alias of ‘Mobile Documents’ and dragged this one to the Finder sidebar. That works fine for me. Thanks for sharing this nice feature.

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 01:08:07 +0000

This does not work. When I try to drag the Mobile Documents folder to the Finder sidebar, I get the grey circle/slash icon and so I can’t drop it anywhere there.