#Lanscan pro pro#
#Lanscan pro mac#

The live version is empty, but the backup contains two folders, one of which has 26 Pixelmator “preview” files.Īh… I think I see what must’ve happened last year.

#Lanscan pro pro#

What’s called Pixelmator Pro in the live version is called 4R6749AYRE~com~pixelmatorteam~pixelmator in my backup folder. The names of the folders, of course, are very different. The backed-up version of my “folder” contains 105 folders and the live version contains 87. I’ve gone just now and checked one of my CCC backup drives (filled with APFS snapshots), navigating to the pseudo-folder ~/Library/Mobile Documents/, and comparing that listing to what I see when I navigate to the “same” pseudo-folder on my MBP. If something goes missing from your iCloud Drive for any reason, you’ll want another way to recover your data. Thus, with whatever backup apps you may use-Time Machine, Backblaze, Carbon Copy Cloner, or whatever-make sure it includes the directory ~/Library/ Mobile Documents/, which is where iCloud Drive stores its local copies of your files. Looking at things from another angle, however, you should absolutely back up everything in iCloud Drive, along with the rest of your files, to one or more other drives or external locations. So, it’s possible that I was right and that my backup selection criteria in some way missed these files, or perhaps that the version of CCC I was using at the time was buggy or didn’t yet support iCloud Drive documents, or ….Īnd of course Joe Kissell’s TCo iCloud (both v8 and v9) includes: Not that long ago (one year? two?), I needed to restore an iCloud Drive file and was stunned to find that CCC hadn’t backed it up - or, at least, I wasn’t able to find it or any of its sibling files.Īs I looked into this just now, though, to verify my memory and to point you to a definitive source, I find that Mike Bombich has specifically addressed this question:Īnd he says point blank that CCC does automatically back these files up (though it doesn’t, of course, back up files that are only in the cloud - they have to be on your hard drive).

#Lanscan pro mac#

Let me start by saying that, though I’m a long-time Mac user (1984) and, comparatively speaking, a “power user,” I’m no Mac expert - and am especially no expert when it comes to Apple’s implementation of iCloud / iCloud Drive / Mobile Documents / &c. Tl dr: There’s no reason to use ChronoSync to backup iCloud Drive files for the purpose of then backing them up with CCC, SuperDuper, or ,