Add .nosync to the file/folder name path and keep it in the home or documents directory. Problem solved.
edit: I'm shocked this thread is so long and no body mentioned this. It's been on the apple developer forums for months as a solution.
edit: I'm shocked this thread is so long and no body mentioned this. It's been on the apple developer forums for months as a solution.
https://twitter.com/#!/marcoarment/status/124587437799374848
In fact, if you use UIManagedDocument, it creates a .nosync directory in the document bundle to prevent it from syncing in the framework itself.
Has anyone used this successfully?
The documentation seems to imply that .nosync will prevent the whole store from being uploaded, but (1) that does not seem consistent with what others are reporting, and (2) I cannot find any other supporting information on .nosync in either Apple documentation or dev forums - that doc and this thread are literally the only places I've seen it referenced.
The other underlying issue is whether Apple would be cool with storing persistent application data in Documents provided that it is not synced to iCloud. The use case that Marco and others have described does not really match what's described in that document.
edit: Marcos -> Marco
They spoke about .nosync at this year's WWDC a few times. Dev forums are a little nuts since they opened the iOS Beta 5 forums to all the non NDA members.