"Documents in the Cloud" and Mountain Lion workflow??
I haven't yet upgraded to Moutain Lion but before I do I'm wondering if anyone can help answer a workflow question related to Documets in the Cloud and how it runs on Mountain Lion: Has Apple solve/simplified/streamlined the use of Documents in the Cloud beyond what is a significant hassle in Lion?
To better undertsand the context of my question, it may help to explain how it's working for me with Lion. I currently have all of the '09 version of the iWork Suite of apps (Pages, Numbes, Keynote), as well as the iOS versions of each. Although Lion has iCloud connectivity, there doesn't appear to be any ability for Page (or the other apps) to share/save/open documents directly to and from iCloud itself. Beyond the fact that there is no readably folder structure to iCloud, the current situation recquires me to manually drag/drop a file from my local HDD to the iWork interface on iCloud.com. Only then can I see and open the document on my iPad, iPhone, etc. Then, in order to back to my desktop, I have to manually download the file from the iCloud.com interface and reopen it locally. This means that unless I've taken the extra step of modifying the filename at some point in the process I now have two documents on my local drive with the exact same filename.
So, again, my question is: has Mountain Lion simplified/solved/steamlined the currently ridiculous process, or whill I still have to instead opt for Dropbox, Google Drive, or Box, all of which have user navigable directory structures and avoid the duplicate file issues?
Yes, it is simpler to work with iCloud files in Mountain Lion, assuming you have the latest version of each of the iWork '09 applications. You can open documents directly from iCloud in Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, and you can choose whether a new document is saved into iCloud or on the normal Finder file system.
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Is there any way to stop the automatically download of certain synced documents in one of my devices?
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I just made the update with "Mountain Lion" on my MAC. Now I´m not able to open all my (old) Word-Documents any more. What can I do?
Office 2004 Applications Won't Work in Lion
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You may want to consider as well:
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Keynote - presentation
Numbers - spreadsheet
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http://itunes.apple.com/app/save-to-cloud/id460084265?mt=8
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I Have downloaded the upgrade from Mountain Lion to Yosemite. In thee process of so doing I have lost access to iTunes.
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Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
Here are some troubleshooting steps that I would recommend going through when experiencing this issue.
iTunes: Troubleshooting issues with third-party iTunes plug-ins
http://support.apple.com/en-us/ts3430
Troubleshooting iTunes installation on Mac OS X
http://support.apple.com/en-us/ht2311
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As this is a new issue for me, I believe I had the incorrect approach, maybe you can help me. What I want to do is recover a few files in my desktop, and some information i had on the iCal application and the Mail application as well.As I do not want to do a full migration into this computer (which is not mine) I believe that starting the damaged MBP in Target mode should allow me to search and cop the files I need. But:
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