{"id":5906,"date":"2012-01-04T10:55:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T08:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=5906"},"modified":"2012-01-04T11:00:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T09:00:52","slug":"sync-lion-desktop-via-icloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2012\/01\/sync-lion-desktop-via-icloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Sync Lion desktop via iCloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/blog\/2011\/11\/03\/sync-macs-over-icloud\/ \u200e\">all that sync&#8217;ing works quite well<\/a>, I still have different desktops on my MacBooks.<br \/>\nHere is a solution that is based on some undocumented feature of the iCloud that I have found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macstories.net\/tutorials\/use-mobile-documents-folder-to-sync-files-with-icloud-across-macs\/\">macstories.net<\/a>. It basically needs to activate the iCloud settings also for files which will give you in Lion access to a magic 5 GB ~\/Library\/Mobile Document folder very much alike to Dropbox.<br \/>\nI am rsyncing here now my Desktop folder by an automator action as described at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bananica.com\/Geek-Stuff\/Synchronize-two-folders-on-a-Mac-with-Automator-and-Rsync\/\">banana.com<\/a>. Can be done in less than 5 minutes&#8230;<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 26.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While all that sync&#8217;ing works quite well, I still have different desktops on my MacBooks. Here is a solution that is based on some undocumented feature of the iCloud that I have found at macstories.net. It basically needs to activate the iCloud settings also for files which will give you in Lion access to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2012\/01\/sync-lion-desktop-via-icloud\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sync Lion desktop via iCloud<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2568,2303,2642,2735],"class_list":["post-5906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-software","tag-desktop","tag-mac","tag-osx","tag-sync"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5906"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5908,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5906\/revisions\/5908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}