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Use icloud drive in my ipad offline

How i can use iclod drive in my ipad offline?

Yes you can work offline with the documents, but you can only sync the changes when you are online again.

Just use it, the changes you make to your documents will sync next time you have a connection.

Thank you for your reply but I mean if I can download all my files on my device in the new app icloud drive to work offline like a computer.

Yes you can work offline with the documents, but you can only sync the changes when you are online again.

Do you know how do you go about downloading them all?

Or do I have to go one by one and download everything individually?

You'll need to select which ones you want to download.

Hi winston,

how does one select which folders to have offline on the iPad pro/ipad/iphone etc? Is it as simple as sugarsync?  Dropbox only allows individual file downloads to a device, and not entire folders/subfolders...

thanks for your help!

You select files not folders.

Hi,

is there no way to select entire folders for offline use?

and HOW does one select the files we want to keep offline? no simple guide for this online..!

You are approaching it the wrong way around, your files are offline by default, you'll need to select which ones you want to download, you can't select folders.

What do you mean by that? What is meant by downloading an offline file? One usually downloads a file to make it accessible offline, isn't it? I have 50 GB iCloud storage and I store all my documents, etc. on iCloud in my mac. I am planning to buy an iPad Pro 32 GB. If my 50 GB of iCloud storage is full or I have more than 32 GB (25 GB in fact) files stored on iCloud how can I have access to all of them in iPad, offline? Please clarify. Thanks in advance.

Try opening the documents you want to access while off line before going off line.

After I select multiple files, I can't make it all available offline. How stupid is iPhone or Apple?!!

Hi Winston,

I'm sure you're not trying to be slippery but your too-short answers looks like you are!

gaspnvil clearly has a whole load of files and folders stored in iCloud that he wishes to access offline - for the sake of argument let's say 400 folders and 3000 files of various types.  When offline he wants to be able to see all those files in their usual folder tree, and pick any one of them to open, edit and save. when back online, iCloud would then sync the cloud files with the local iPad files again, and all is good and beautiful.

Just so we can pre-empt any dismissive, patronising, insulting 'explanations' of questions that are not being asked here:

- gaspnvil and we readers of this thread understand and accept that while offline his iPad will only be saving locally and not to to the Internet (durr!).

- we agree with you that it is unacceptable to have to download/sync all 3000 files by individually selecting them on the iPad (before going offline) just so that iCloud knows which ones you might eventually want to see later on. Yes we would like to find a way of selecting the root folder and instructing the iPad "I want the whole bloody lot downloaded pleas. Power cable is in, I'm happy to wait an hour, off you go".

- we do accept that we are thinking about things the 'wrong way round'.  The iCloud folders that appear on an iPad's iCloud Drive are definitely not offline by default. Try it, and prepare for frustration.  It makes perfect sense to store 3000 files locally in a strongly hierarchical folder structure on an iPad Pro with 32GB or 256GB internal storage, and have them sync in the background whenever wifi is available.  It makes perfect sense to mirror image an existing folder tree from a macBook or from a Windows PC onto an iPad.

- this question is asked because we do not accept the notion of all work activities can be predicated on the continuous presence of an Internet connection. Real people still have significant chunks of time without Internet, and still need to get stuff done in those moments.

-no we don't accept that the Ipad is the 'wrong tool, just use a macBook'. This would be an arrogant put down of a perfectly decent question.

So, with lots of trite resonses  to one side, gaspnvil's question still stands: how can an Ipad conveniently get a local sync of a large & complex folder tree from iCloud?

My guess is that iCloud itself hasn't got this feature for miscalculated ideological reasons.

My next guess is, that it can be done but using a third party app that is either designed to sync a variety of cloud services, or is designed to aggregate a cluster of cloud services, and that app's target clouds happen to include iCloud along with box, dropbox, amazon drive, google drive etc.

I've been searching for this solution for two months, but even the combinations I've found that are a close hit, actually fail to work when tested thoroughly.  I'm really hoping someone else has had success and blabs....

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