iCloud Drive is backing up files you haven't saved yet<article>
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The line between local and remote storage started blurring long ago. The moment you could save a file from within a program on a Mac or other OS to something that wasn’t a physically connected hard drive—whether a network file server, a remote AFP volume elsewhere on the Internet, or a Finder-mounted whatever—you had to make a conscious effort to remember what was entirely within your control and what was not. Sure, remote files used to take longer to save: we’d watch a progress bar or beachball on larger files, and the latency reminded us.</p><p>
Cloud storage and backups typically remove that latency by relying on synchronization instead of real-time transfer. This is an advantage, as we can keep working and have a stream of data leave our computer or mobile device, and, in the event of loss, crash, or theft, often recover what we lost. BBEdit and Adobe InDesign have long saved my bacon with local “journaling,” writing nearly every keystroke into a local file used for recovery—after an app or system crash, the saved file is brought up to date with the journal, even if I haven’t saved. Dropbox and Crashplan have likewise had the same impact when I hit the save key sequence frequently. If I put my Application Support folder for BBEdit into Dropbox, I get the advantage of both.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2844217/icloud-drive-is-backing-up-files-you-havent-saved-yet.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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iCloud Drive is backing up files you haven't saved yet
