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Where does ia writer save files12/14/2023 When you move a file to iCloud from the Mac, it moves the file to the iCloud hidden directory, which I think is somewhere in the library directory. Worse, there’s an implied lock-in to using iCloud that seems to miss the point of using text files in the first place. There is no such thing as a folder in iCloud land, which will eventually become an organizational problem. It’s not all sweetness and light, especially if you are a really heavy creator of text files. The iaWriter iCloud sync is noticeably less annoying. This may seem esoteric, but since I tend to have several blog posts on progress in open windows on my laptop, I do wind up regularly using the iPad to edit an open file. I’m not sure I’ve seen an iOS editor that polls Dropbox for changes, though one of the auto-sync ones (Elements, WriteRoom) might You then need to close the Mac file and reopen it. In particular, if a Lion-aware app has Dropbox change the file behind its back, the original Mac file continues to be displayed with a filename indicating that it is a deleted version. I haven’t quite gotten that level of integration from Dropbox. You can put the iPad and Mac next to each other and go back and forth between the two with only a very slight pause while they sync up. The changes just appear in the other app. True, except that the iCloud sync behaves much better if a file is simultaneously open in both apps. When you make a change to an iCloud file (on the Mac side, an explicit save, on the iPad side an automatic local save), it is automatically sent to iCloud and pushed to the other site. On iaWriter Mac, you get a command in the file menu for iCloud, which has a sublisting of all the files iaWriter is managing in iCloud, along with commands to move the current file to or from iCloud. Where the iCloud thing gets really cool is if you are running iaWriter on both iPad and Mac. (As a side note, iaWriter has improved its Dropbox sync from “show-stoppingly bad” to “works with a couple of annoyances”, the main annoyance being that it doesn’t remember your place in the Dropbox file hierarchy.) iCloud saves automatically, but Dropbox lets you use subfolders. If you are just using the iPad version then there is not much difference between iCloud and Dropbox. In iaWriter, iCloud shows up as a storage location, on par with internal iPad and Dropbox storage. iaWriter is the first writing program I use to move to the iCloud future (though there are some games and other programs that also sync via iCloud already).Īt a technical level, the integration is fantastic. The thing that’s changed my editor use in the last couple of months is iaWriter Mac and iOS adding iCloud support, even more deeply integrated than Apple’s own applications. If I don’t write about iOS editors every few months, then it’s harder for me to justify continuing to mess around with them…
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