I must be getting old because I’m finding it hard to understand iCloud. I have a Mac laptop, on which I have just installed Mountain Lion, I have an iMac on which I was thinking of installing Mountain Lion, I have another iMac, which I don’t own, on which I do remote work for a company using its intranet and I can’t change the system on it, I have an iPad and an iPhone and I do work for companies at their offices working on their Macs and PCs.
Because I often want to refer to or do some work on files of my own (mainly Word and Open Office files) I have been sending files backwards and forwards between the various computers I work on as email attachments with the result that I have multiple files and I find it difficult to remember which is the latest version.
I thought iCloud would resolve this but what I expected was to see a window of Mac style icons showing documents in folders “somewhere” and I thought I’d be able to create documents and put them in from any machine and then access them from any other.
On my laptop with Mountain Lion I set up Mail and I “moved” a Word document to the cloud. I was a bit bemused that I couldn’t see a window with the moved document in it and the “moved” document seemed to stay where it was. Where is the “main” document? Is there one “in the cloud” and one on my laptop? If I install Mountain Lion on my iMac and then open and modify the document will it change both files? If I then delete the file on the iMac, will it delete the file in the cloud and the one on the laptop? Can I not just have a folder the contents of which will automatically go to the cloud?
On my iPad I can access the mail accounts I have but I can’t see the document anywhere. I don’t want to amend it, but I do want to read it. Can I do that? Or can I at least put the documents in some kind of orderly file structure in the cloud?
On my company iMac and on the PC I’m working at now, I can see the iCloud window via www.icloud.com but I can’t get at the emails or the document I put up there even just to read or copy. Is there no way I can do that?
Are the documents in the cloud safe and secure? Can I put them in some sort of password protected folder?
I have bought a book called Mountain Lion for Dummies which, on the front claimed to explain how to use iCloud. There are only two pages in it that mention iCloud and neither of them are helpful.
Any advice gratefully received.
Thx Steve
Because I often want to refer to or do some work on files of my own (mainly Word and Open Office files) I have been sending files backwards and forwards between the various computers I work on as email attachments with the result that I have multiple files and I find it difficult to remember which is the latest version.
I thought iCloud would resolve this but what I expected was to see a window of Mac style icons showing documents in folders “somewhere” and I thought I’d be able to create documents and put them in from any machine and then access them from any other.
On my laptop with Mountain Lion I set up Mail and I “moved” a Word document to the cloud. I was a bit bemused that I couldn’t see a window with the moved document in it and the “moved” document seemed to stay where it was. Where is the “main” document? Is there one “in the cloud” and one on my laptop? If I install Mountain Lion on my iMac and then open and modify the document will it change both files? If I then delete the file on the iMac, will it delete the file in the cloud and the one on the laptop? Can I not just have a folder the contents of which will automatically go to the cloud?
On my iPad I can access the mail accounts I have but I can’t see the document anywhere. I don’t want to amend it, but I do want to read it. Can I do that? Or can I at least put the documents in some kind of orderly file structure in the cloud?
On my company iMac and on the PC I’m working at now, I can see the iCloud window via www.icloud.com but I can’t get at the emails or the document I put up there even just to read or copy. Is there no way I can do that?
Are the documents in the cloud safe and secure? Can I put them in some sort of password protected folder?
I have bought a book called Mountain Lion for Dummies which, on the front claimed to explain how to use iCloud. There are only two pages in it that mention iCloud and neither of them are helpful.
Any advice gratefully received.
Thx Steve
