Re: Sharing Files Between My Apps via iCloud

2018-10-26 Thread Jens Alfke
> On Oct 26, 2018, at 3:43 AM, Uli Kusterer > wrote: > > Many apps make that assumption about Dropbox as well, and it is dangerous. Yup. Case in point is the support forums for Scrivener (an excellent word processor for book-writing, which uses a bundle file format), where there are numero

Re: Sharing Files Between My Apps via iCloud

2018-10-26 Thread Uli Kusterer
That iCloud doesn't work the way you expected it to is good. Many apps make that assumption about Dropbox as well, and it is dangerous. Dropbox does not know about file packages or relationships between multiple files in a folder, so if you have anything but a single-file format, you can get do

Re: Sharing Files Between My Apps via iCloud

2018-10-25 Thread Michal L. Wright
Thanks, Uli. I used a dev support issue several weeks back, and received the following info from Dev Tech Support: --- The file with a leading dot and a .icloud extension is a stub representing a file that is not downloadeded; it is replaced after the file is downloaded. When synchronizing

Re: Sharing Files Between My Apps via iCloud

2018-10-23 Thread Uli Kusterer
AFAIK the .icloud files are placeholders iCloud creates for Finder to show while a file is still downloading (there will be a little indicator next to it in Finder list view showing it's still downloading. You should probably just ignore those files and wait until iCloud has finished downloadin

Re: Sharing Files Between My Apps via iCloud

2018-09-16 Thread Michal L. Wright
I have apps for Mac OS (myMacApp) and iOS (myIOSApp) that use the same file format. The apps can synchronize files using WiFi or Dropbox. Now I’m working on using iCloud for synchronization. I’m using the same approach that works with Dropbox, which is: 1. myIOSApp can read from and write to th