ICloud vs hard drive

If I save a document to my iMac hard drive, will I also be able to edit it on my iPad?  I don't like the idea of having everything stored only in the cloud, but would like it to update across multiple devices.  Is there a setting I can change to have all documents saved ony my iMac also updaded across devices, or is it a one or the other type of situation?

To have your documents updated across devices it must be sync with iCloud, there is always a workaround  but it wont be a one click solution. Save your document to icloud, then save the same document to your hard drive (hold option key while clicking on file will give you the Save as option). This is actually the smartest thing to do because clouds can fail, also hard drives fails so this way you have a real back up of your documents. Be aware that it will consume a great amount of space on the cloud so  you may consider to sync those you really need to be opened on the iPad.

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  • HT1391 Purchased items - icloud downloads to hard drive

    I have a new MacBook Air and have just purchased my first movie since having this Mac.  The purchase has gone to icloud only it seems and I can't find how to download it to my itunes library on my hard drive.  Have tried "check for available downloads" in the store menu but this just keeps listing the film over and over again in the purchased playlist and they are all 'greyed' out.  I can play the movie on my Mac and on my apple TV via icloud but would rather have it on my hard drive.  Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong or how I need to set this up so that all purchases go to my itunes library on my hard drive?

    Hi there,
    You may find the article below helpful.
    Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
    -Griff W.

  • Im new to the iCloud and Mac in general. After experincing a hard drive crash out of the blue, I lost everything. I want to make sure this doesn't happen again. I show backups for my iPhone and my daughter's iPod but my mac doesn't exist. How do I fix tho

    I'm new to the iCloud and Mac in general. After experiencing a hard drive that went out of the blue, I lost everything. I wanted to use the icloud to back my documents up. I went into the iCloud under settings but it only shows my iPhone and daughter's iPod. How do I get my Mac to back up too? Is there something I need to use to have the documents back up?

    You cannot back up your Mac to iCloud. Even backing the whole thing up to another online service would be dubious because it would take a very long time. You should buy an external hard disk and back up to that - even better, buy two and use one to make a Time Machine backup and the other to clone your Mac from time to time, thus giving you a backup from which you can boot in an emergency.
    If you wanted to back up a suitably sized selection of data to an online service there are a number of third-party methods available, some of which are examined here:
    http://rfwilmut.net/missing3

  • My hard drive crashed and when I replaced it, I am unable to sync most of my music.  The message "file not found" appears.  I have all my music on my .  How can I upload these to iCloud or iTunes?

    My hard drive crashed and I replaced it.  I also switched from ATT to Verizon for my iPhone.  Now when I sync with iTunes, only about a tenth of my songs are on the new iPhone.  one or two from each album.  I still have an iPad with all my songs on it.  I subscribed to music match, but when I try on the iPad it wants to match with iTunes and erase a\the music on the iPad.  I have no music on iCloud when I sign in.  Can anyone help me???

    If the hard drive that crashed is the one that stored the itunes library, be sure to restore the library from Time Machine (mac) or whatever backup you use on windows.  That will get back your music.  I suspect that the replacement drive has an empty itunes library and thus, perhaps, the itunes match used that to sync to its servers.
    Try posting in the iTunes Match forum, you'll probably find more knowledgeable folks there.
    https://discussions.apple.com/community/itunes/itunes_match

  • I redirected iTunes to an external drive and moved my iTunes library and folder, but my hard drive is still low on space.  How can I be sure that my music is all on the external HD ONLY, especially with the new iCloud technology?

    I redirected iTunes to an external drive and moved my iTunes library and folder, but my hard drive is still low on space.  How can I be sure that my music is all on the external HD ONLY, especially with the new iCloud technology?  It doesn't look like I created any more space by doing this, AND I totally lost all my iTunes playlists.  I'm not sure if because I added old library materials manually if this messed up my playlists, or if the new location is just not reading my moved library.  In any case, I followed step by step instructions and found a few holes and thought I'd just "figure it out" but I guess I'm not as smart as I thought since I'm still scratching my head many hours later.
    Thanks for any support ;-)
    Eaglerocker

    Quick answer if you use iTunes' default preferences settings:  Copy the entire iTunes folder (and in doing so all its subfolders and files) intact to the other drive.  Open iTunes and immediately hold down the option (alt) key (shift on Windows) so you get a prompt to select a library, then guide it to the 'iTunes Library.itl' file in the moved iTunes folder.
    If this is to a new computer and you put the copied iTunes folder in the default location of Macintosh HD > Users > *User Name* > Music  then you don't even need to start with the option key held down, iTunes will automatically look for it there.  (Make sure there isn't anything already in the iTunes folder there that you want to keep since you will be replacing it with the one you are moving.)
    iTunes: How to move [or copy] your music [library] to a new computer [or another drive] - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527 - a somewhat bewildering and not always easily understandable set of options.

  • How to get songs back on iTunes once uploaded to iCloud & deleted off hard drive?

    I have my 10,000 song library saved on an external hard drive.  I got the subscription to help limit used space on my laptop hard drive.  I started iTunes Match with my entire library (external drive) and uploaded my entire 10,000 songs.  Once completed I deleted everything from my iTunes program & unplugged my external.
    Now my computer has absolutely no songs on it and I now expected to have access to my entire 10,000 song library from the cloud.  Once restarting my computer and iTunes I opened a library of all my songs visible in iCloud with download buttons but I was unable to actually click & download any of the songs that showed.
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    This sounds like an issue of the local iTunes client getting confused about the location and status of the library.
    To use iTunes with all Song files on an external disk is straightforward if you have instructed it to find the Song files in that location.
    A good route would be to connect the external hard drive such that iTunes client can see all your Song files as normal - check that you can both play your Songs and complete an Update iTunes Match.
    Assuming all is well at this point you can instruct the iTunes client to delete all Songs keeping files and not requesting iCloud deletion.  At this stage all Songs should appear with a working download indicator against them.
    If you now switch off iTunes Match.  Restart the iTunes client and create a new blank local library store on your computers internal disk, then switch on iTunes Match - all Songs will now appear.  You can complete a test download, it will simply store to your new library location.  From here you have the state you wished, all Songs accessible from the iCloud - with the ability to download should you choose.

  • How do I back up documents that are stored in iCloud to my own hard drive?

    The trouble is, however I search for an answer to this question, I get instructions on how to back up stuff TO iCloud.
    I want to back up stuff that applications like Pages and Numbers are already storing IN iCloud.
    See, I don't want to have to trust iCloud to safely store my documents.  Not unless there are copies somewhere that I can fall back on if (it's really only a matter of when) something goes fatally haywire in iCloud.
    It's easy enough to do with a service like, say, Dropbox, which treats my "cloud-stored" files like they are in a folder on my hard-drive.  So when I run either a local (Time Machine/Capsule) or a cloud (Crashplan, in my case) backup, those files get backed up.  So I have at least three copies of those files - in Dropbox, on my Time Capsule, and on Crashplan's servers.
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    Yes, I can do that with Dropbox, but it's less seamless than doing it through iCloud.
    But I want my own backups of those files, and near as I can tell, Apple makes that nearly impossible because iCloud does not show up anywhere as a folder that I can access or sort.
    Or does it?  Am I missing something?
    If so, let me know.... if not... is there a solution to this dilemma, or is it just one more aspect of iCloud that Apple has not clearly thought through?
    Thanks,
    --PS

    Right.  You didn't read the post, you only read the title.
    The title came from an earlier step in the process when I was posing a question to the systen.
    The pertinent part of the question is "How to I back up documents that are stored in iCloud" 
    That the destination for the backup is NOT my internal HDD should be clear from the rest of the post.
    And frankly, even if that is where I want to back up to, that would at least give me two copies, at least giving me one duplicate of the stuff on iCloud.
    So please stop wasting my time if you can't answer the actual question: How do I backup content that is stored in iCloud.  The destination of the backup is irrelevant.
    --P

  • Playing music from iCloud on Macbook Pro without external hard drive

    I have iTunes match set up on my macbook pro. All my music is physically stored on an external hard drive and is perfectly matched to iCloud. So I can stream/download all my music to my iphone and ipad no problem.
    I would have thought as all my music is now in the cloud i should be able to, for example, take my macbook on holiday and not have to bring the hard drive that all the music is on with me.
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    Am I missing something really obvious here? Is there an icloud mode I have to switch it too?
    I've tried turning off itunes match (restarting) and logging in again without the hard drive connected but it still seems to be looking for the music locally.
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    PS - I have the latest iTunes and am using Mountain Lion

    I have just worked this out.
    Just created a new library by clicking option while opening iTunes. Then just turned on itunes match with this new library.
    Works fine.

  • Can i use icloud to restore my music if i lose my hard drive?

    The drivers on my HP laptop have malfunctioned and the Geek Squad has not been able to restore them.  They want to try something that would erase my hard drive (which i am an idiot for not backing up)  I have recently subscribed to the iCloud match service and was wondering if i would be able to get all my music (the only important thing i have stored on my pc) back from the cloud?

    No. You can play your music anywhere 

  • Can i connect a external hard drive to apple tv 3 generation, for see my movies itunes with out use streaming or icloud?

    can i connect a external hard drive to apple tv 3 generation, for see my movies itunes with out use streaming or icloud?  in apple tv 3 and 2?
    That  i want to know is i can connect a external hard drive to apple tv, for see my movies that i keep in my external hard drive,  i dont want to see then  whit the streaming and icloud, or used my  laptop o pc for access de movies and stuff.
    i put iny spanish to, because i feel my english is not so good, but i hope you understand me.
    if i can´t  connect a external hard  drive, wich others media players divices you know that can see itunes movies?
    ¿quisiera saber si se puede conectar una memoria externa al apple tv, para ver el contenido de itunes que tengo guardado en esa memoria como peliculas, ect?
    lo que no quiero es usar  la icloud, o el servicio streamig para ver mi contenido, ni tener que usar la computadora para ver mi contenido el la tv?
    y de no poderse conectar  que otros dispositivos media pleyer conoces para ver peliculas de itunes  en la tv?

    Welcome to the Apple Community.
    can i connect a external hard drive to apple tv 3 generation
    Unfortunately not.

  • How do I move a file from Icloud to my hard drive?

    How do I move a file from Icloud to my hard drive?

    From the appropriate application (eg, Pages, TextEdit, etc) find your file(s) in iCloud (use File - Open), then highlight (you can multiple-select) the files you want to move, and drag them to your desktop or another Finder location.
    Matt

  • HT204053 I recently replaced the hard drive on my Windows 7 computer and lost all of my music content. It should be on the iCloud, however. How can I get it back to iTunes? Can I "reverse-synch" and send it FROM my iPhone TO my computer?

    I recently replaced the hard drive on my Windows 7 computer and in the process lost all my music. I think it should be on the iCoud. Can I get it back from the iCloud to my computer? Or can I "reverse-synch" FROM my iPhone TO iTunes?

    All the music you purchased from iTunes can be re-downloaded, all the music you acquired without purchasing from iTunes can be accessed using Senuti (not free). The combination of these 2 will get your music back.

  • HT201272 There are purchased items that are no longer showing in the iTunes store because I upgraded to iTunes Plus format.  What can I do? My hard drive crashed and lost a great deal of my music and it's not showing in iCloud.

    What can I do to see items that I have purchased but upgraded to iTunes Plus? They are not showing in my iCloud as purchased, but I still can see the original protected versions from old backups. The original was downloaded with my iMac but the computers hard drive has burned out and needs to be replaced.
    Please help.
    Thank you.

    Thanks for the reply although I'm not too happy to hear it.  What's awesome about the cloud is no longer having to keep up with any physical media.  The promise of that is realized with everything else (my work, music, books) besides movies and TV.
    I wonder how Google Play will handle movies/tv that becomes unavailable?  Google Play does allow you to download media in some circumstances (on Android and iOS) but is generally intended  for streaming.  Maybe relying on a physical copy as I do with iTunes should make me more comfortable with it and not less. 
    I will come back to mark your reply as the solution as it becomes clear there is not a contrary position.  Thank you.

  • Have songs on my hard drive already, but still has iCloud icon next to it in iTunes...

    So I'm confused as to how iTunes Match should work apparently.  I have it turned on and it works fine, but all of the songs in my iTunes library (connected to airport extreme) says they are in the iCloud instead of local.  So then if I press the download button for that song, it downloads it and duplicates the song on the hard drive!  How weird!  Why wouldn't it just point to the file on my hard drive since it's already there?
    Or once we turn on Match, should we go and delete our entire local library?  I'm just confused. 
    I also thought I could play them and it would show as downloaded by pointing to the hard drive version, but no dice.  Apparently it only streams from a Mac. 
    The whole reason this is an issue (besides *** backwards functionality) is I am trying to export a playlist and it only shows downloaded songs in the text file, not songs in iCloud, even though all the songs are on my hard drive!
    Anyway, and ideas would be great.
    Thanks,

    sadcaper wrote:
    With iCloud, is there a need to backup music anymore?  If you lose your hard drive, can't you just download it again from iCloud?  That was my impression at least.
    Read this: FAQ: Why iTunes Match Can Not Be Used as a Backup. If you care about your data you'll still keep local backups of all your personal data. Cloud storage is nice and all that but Apple doesn't market iTunes Match as a backup solution and because the matching is not 100% accurate nor does the service store Apple Lossless files, it is not a viable backup solution. For cloud backups you want a company like Backblaze or Mozy or one of the others available who are backup solutions.
    sadcaper wrote:
    Currently both MBPr and iMac have the iTunes Media folder pointed to the Drobo.  However, I did notice that some music files were downloaded locally on the MBPr, which I think are from the auto download feature.  Not sure though.
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    Keep in mind that any purchases made on the MBPr will be downloaded, and with automatic downloads turned on purchases from other devices will also be downloaded. Right off the top of my head I don't know if this will result in duplicate downloads, but as long as the MBPr is on the local network and iTunes has the library pointing at the Drobo it will all go into the same spot. BUT... if you make a purchase on the MBPr while away from the local network that purchase will be downloaded to the local internal HDD.
    So a variation on the theme I talked about above is to, perhaps, not make any purchases on the MBPr and turn off auto-downloads for purchases and keep iTunes Match and Home Sharing enabled. This will enable you to access the music library while home and away and not keep any media on the internal HDD.

  • My hard drive crashed with no backup.  How can I get the data from iCloud onto my Mac?

    My hard drive went bad and needed to be replaced and I've lost everything that was on it (no backup - I know, I know...).  Fortunately much of my data was backed up either on icloud or my ipad but I haven't been able to find any information about restoring it FROM icloud or ipad TO my Mac, only about how to restore to an ios device.  I am running Lion.  Thank you!

    I guess what I meant to say was that I can log on to icloud to see my contacts, calendars, etc but is there a way to get that data onto my computer?  In other words, how do I associate my new hard drive with my icloud account?  I am probably not phrasing this properly - sorry.  Three days ago (pre-crash) my desktop was configured to reflect my icloud info but I don't know how to make it do so again...does this make sense

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