I got a few questions about my Mac Treat from last week, “*Localize Files in the Cloud,*”:http://blog.smalldog.com/kibbles/kb874/ and I came across a scenario that others may want to know, so that seemed worthy of an addendum.
The main question that users wanted to know was if the files viewed in Finder would be changeable if accessed there and not in their respective apps. The answer? Yes. Files accessed through the Finder can be edited and saved in the cloud. This includes both the content and name of the files.
The problem I ran into had to do with permissions. In the time that I had saved the iCloud file search to the Sidebar using the process I outlined last week, I both changed my iCloud password and updated some settings. As a result, I couldn’t access any of the files in the list, even though I could see them.
To fix this, I went into *System Preferences > iCloud* and updated my password. Then, I made sure “Documents & Data” was checked. (This is pretty obvious, but it’s worth noting since I sync two computers with iCloud. To ensure each computer has adequate permissions, you’ll want to make sure each has that option checked.) After that, I noticed that the files disappeared completely from the saved search Sidebar shortcut. So, I repeated the steps from last week’s tutorial, essentially saving a new Sidebar shortcut for the search, and deleted the original Sidebar item. Now, everything is as accessible as it should be.
