iCloud Drive can strip (meta)data from your documents

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1 pointjtbayly3 comments

I’ve always been hesitant about trusting iCloud. I remember losing metadata with early cloud storage and networked backup solutions across platforms. This shows me I was entirely justified in doubting the reliability.

Anybody else able to confirm this?

Is this really an iCloud issue? My first thought would be its a HFS+ vs APFS issue.

Well, the impression I got was that if you copied the file by flash drive, for example, that you didn’t lose any metadata. But it’s a good question, and I don’t know. I updated both of my computers, so I can’t test either way.

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