![]() You can also use this with iWork documents, but beware, make sure you put a copy of the documents from your OSX machine to iCloud, as reading them under IOS 5 changes the format irreversibly (for now). As soon as other iOS programs support Documents on iCloud, this will be extended to them as well. Then, on the MacBook Pro, the shared documents are available in the ~/DropBox/iCloud folder.įor example GoodReader on the iPad has iCloud support, so I can directly put PDFs from my MacBook Pro in this directory, and they appear directly in GoodReader. Ln -s /Users/username/Library/Mobile Documents /Users/username/Dropbox/iCloud What I did on my iMac running Lion is to link (with ln -s) the iCloud 'Mobile Documents' folder (in ~/Library) to my Dropbox folder with something like (substitute the actual user's short name for 'username' in the command): Still, I am interested to share some of my documents over iCloud between my iPad/iPhone/MBP (running Snow Leopard), and I also have an iMac at home running Lion. For various reasons, I will not switch to Lion on my work MacBook Pro for a while.
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