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iCloud and Dropbox Best Practices for Audio (aka HELP!)
Dropbox I seem to more or less have gotten the hang of. Just don’t use it for anything too big or too small. In fact use it as little as possible.
iCloud seems to hate my guts. If I put something in there the files app freezes for about half an hour and then when it shows up I can only open it half the time.
I’ve got about 300gb in there. Not that much for an audio creative. I pay for the 2tb option. Apples support were beyond useless and tried to get me to erase my HD.
I’ve got roughly 100 folders with all about 1pm - 6gb per folder. It’s really not loads.
Should I be using another app like Documents to move stuff around? Is it files app? It seems like it has a lot of trouble with the files in there and there’s really nothing that big, in fact I reckon there isn’t an individual file that’s over 500mb max.
Any ideas? I’m relying on wetrans to send stuff as Dropbox just doesn’t like anything unless you zip it first and then you can’t unzip it in db. When you dl the zip it’s often corrupt.
Aaarggghh!
ps: am I angry? Yes. These services are sold to people like me to do the kind of stuff I do specifically. I’m locked into the Apple ecosystem and own three of their devices. So this stuff should work.
Comments
This sounds like you might be having connectivity/network issues.
I don’t think it’s that, the network I’m on is very solid.
Sorry, never had issues like that with Dropbox or iCloud. In general I find Dropbox to be faster at uploading than iCloud, but both are fairly close in terms of speed for me.
Very occasionally, iCloud will be very slow downloading. It doesn’t happen very often (maybe once a every month of for me) but when it does it is aggravating.
I seem to have this all the time at the moment. It’s absolutely running at a snail’s pace. Dropbox is a bit better since I started zipping everything before uploading, and also syncing all files to the device and double checking they haven’t gone back to online-only.
I think that I’ve got an issue somewhere in the file system perhaps with something that won’t disappear after it’s been deleted. But not sure how to fix. Very nervous about what I might lose if I get it wrong.
Maybe log out on all devices will help?
When I do things one at a time, which is still infuriating, it plays a bit nicer. So waiting for dls to finish before I start new ones etc.
But it should be better than this and the impression I got from Apple is that unless I erase the HD they won’t flush the system at their end.
If it is happening with both Dropbox and iCloud, I suspect it is not the file system unless you have little free space on the device.
How much free space is there on your device?
I do agree that the space on the device plays a role sometimes but I keep about 20gb free space at all times on each device which should be enough.
Do you have these slowdowns with any size file? Even just a small one?
Also what OS version?
It tends to be the quantity of files that makes it grind to a halt. I have a lot of very small snippets of audio on my hd. Like we all do. And anything which involves bulk moving them or naming them causes issues.
Right now I just tried to listen to a track from my iCloud in VLC. Took five minutes to download and then crashed the programme: this seems to be how it works. It will take ages downloading stuff and then even when it’s downloaxed it’s still problematic. You can get to the files in files app but if you try and do anything with them it’s a lottery.
Os is the latest on iPad and iPhone, big Sur on the laptop.
Right now if I go into iCloud with files it only lets me open them fifty percent on the time. Somethings not right.
Lots of files in a single folder does tend to trip up iOS. I find the tipping point to be between 1,000 to 2,500 files. Any time there are larger number of files in any subfolder, all bets are off. This is true also for USB based storage.
Ok that’s good advice I’ll have a look into it thanks.
You mad genius!
I only had three folders with over 1000 files in and they were small files but like you suggested I put them in subfolders. Suddenly it’s working again at a very satisfactory pace!!!
Thank you!!!
OK so reducing the number of folders with 1000+ files had a big effect.
Although it almost went horribly wrong when I used FileBrowser Pro which is a good app imo to batch rename around 800 files.
The whole thing went into meltdown and was warming up to delete itself in its entirety so I logged out quickly on the iPad with FBP just in time before something went badly wrong.
iCloud is f**king fragile. Not really acceptable for a ‘pro’ app. You really have to go slow even if you’re renaming things manually, it does not like anything that’s numerous or quick. Very irritating.