I’ve just run an experimentation with Apple’s iCloud Drive. I just saved a .scriv file to the cloud and then reopened the same. It seems to retain all subfiles intact. Has anyone else run a similar test using Apple’s iCloud Drive? I would be keen to know.
This bears out my theory of using a Cloud facility for saving, and as we’re developing the iOS version of Scrivener it makes sense. It does seem to preserve all subfiles which is really pleasing.
Keith, would it make sense to look into multiple cloud saving options? I don’t like Dropbox and would go out of my way to avoid it. It just consumes so much processing power when it’s updating.
iCloud Drive should work fine for Scrivener. For iOS, syncing will initially support Dropbox only, with us looking at other cloud services after 1.0. We do intend to support others, but it’s not really practical to implement more than one for 1.0, as it would push back the release (even further) and it would be better to ensure sync is stable and working well with one service before adapting it for others. (We also have to think of Windows users, of course.)
Hi Keith, that makes sense. I Personally would like to see iCloud Drive, because Apple really do their homework and you just know it’s going to be a tightly knit, and a speedy solution.
“Apple really do their homework”… oh, really? Search Google for “apple failures”. There are thousands of them. What about this, from infoworld.com/article/263024 … lures.html
"Apple’s core principles of high quality, pleasurable innovation, and reinvention established its positive reputation. But Apple’s periodic failings of arrogance, internecine warfare, and myopia have also played their role in the company’s storied history. The most recent example: Apple’s mercurial interest in business users led to the Exchange ActiveSync support snafu that rendered many iPhones unusable in enterprise environments.
“All companies make mistakes, but InfoWorld has identified a dozen that Apple has made that go way beyond the norm. Almost everyone knows the story of the Lisa, Apple’s leading-edge replacement for the Apple II and III series that ended up as an unworkable mess – and for which Steve Jobs was forced out, only to take over the Macintosh project that ultimately made Apple the icon of accessible, cool technology that it is today. But the stories behind the Copland OS and Mac clone disasters – two related events that almost killed Apple – aren’t so well known. And the company had a snootier-than-usual period in the late 1990s and early 2000s during which form repeatedly trumped function, and not with successful results.”