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Apple Scrubbed Files from iCloud on May 25th of 2023?!

jwmmakerofmusicjwmmakerofmusic
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So I learned a couple new songs on the piano to finally beef up my repertoire. When I scanned the files in as PDFs and uploaded to my old iCloud folder, I came to find out that for whatever reason, Apple had scrubbed all the folders clean from the previous PDFs that were there, with the change appearing to happen on May 25th of last year!

To say I am livid is an understatement, and I have no idea if anyone else has experienced these issues with iCloud before. Has anyone experienced issues like this with iCloud in the past?

(Luckily I still have all the scanned PDFs on my 2017 iPad Pro I use as a sheet music reader, so once I'm home later after my gig tonight, I can back all of those up to Dropbox.)

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  • yellow_eyezyellow_eyez

    Yes
    Apple sucks - and there’s nothing to be done about it either.

    That’s why I stopped using iCloud two years ago and only use external storage

  • jwmmakerofmusicjwmmakerofmusic

    @yellow_eyez said:
    Yes
    Apple sucks - and there’s nothing to be done about it either.

    That’s why I stopped using iCloud two years ago and only use external storage

    Okay, so I'm not the only person this affected it seems. Thanks for confirming mate. At least I still have the files backed up to that 2017 iPad Pro, or I'd have to dig out the binders to scan in and organise all the sheet music all over again.

  • HolyMosesHolyMoses

    @yellow_eyez said:
    Yes
    Apple sucks - and there’s nothing to be done about it either.

    That’s why I stopped using iCloud two years ago and only use external storage

    Sorry, but that's bullshit!

    I have stored files on iCloud Drive since day one of release, and, have to this date zero losses concerning files and folders...

    I have since years back 2TB iCloud Drive, and, I have used 1.4TB and naturally have hundred of thousands files and folder (to be accessed away from home to my iPhones and my serenades of iPads and MacBooks...

    Have an 2TB SSD thunderbolt drive so I have backups (done automatically between iCloud and SSD).

    Apples cloud service is as good as both MS and Googles, and perhaps Amazon & Dropbox...

  • espiegel123espiegel123

    @jwmmakerofmusic said:
    So I learned a couple new songs on the piano to finally beef up my repertoire. When I scanned the files in as PDFs and uploaded to my old iCloud folder, I came to find out that for whatever reason, Apple had scrubbed all the folders clean from the previous PDFs that were there, with the change appearing to happen on May 25th of last year!

    To say I am livid is an understatement, and I have no idea if anyone else has experienced these issues with iCloud before. Has anyone experienced issues like this with iCloud in the past?

    (Luckily I still have all the scanned PDFs on my 2017 iPad Pro I use as a sheet music reader, so once I'm home later after my gig tonight, I can back all of those up to Dropbox.)

    I am somewhat skeptical that Apple scrubbed your files.

  • yowzayowza

    I’ve never had any issues with files being deleted by iCloud only by my user error where I accidentally deleted a folder

  • jwmmakerofmusicjwmmakerofmusic

    Well I have no idea what user error there'd be. It wasn't just the sheet music pdfs that were deleted from my iCloud, but all the folders show they were modified on May 25th of last year. I didn't do anything to delete the files.

  • yellow_eyezyellow_eyez
    edited June 7

    @HolyMoses said:

    @yellow_eyez said:
    Yes
    Apple sucks - and there’s nothing to be done about it either.

    That’s why I stopped using iCloud two years ago and only use external storage

    Sorry, but that's bullshit!

    I have stored files on iCloud Drive since day one of release, and, have to this date zero losses concerning files and folders...

    I have since years back 2TB iCloud Drive, and, I have used 1.4TB and naturally have hundred of thousands files and folder (to be accessed away from home to my iPhones and my serenades of iPads and MacBooks...

    Have an 2TB SSD thunderbolt drive so I have backups (done automatically between iCloud and SSD).

    Apples cloud service is as good as both MS and Googles, and perhaps Amazon & Dropbox...

    Speak for yourself - I didn’t even make the OP lol

    (And FWIW, Apple doesn’t suck: but their customer service usually does with matters like this because it was said user error and Apple couldn’t help . But I love their hardware and their software. And I would never use anything besides an iPhone and iPad.

  • uncledaveuncledave

    @jwmmakerofmusic said:
    Well I have no idea what user error there'd be. It wasn't just the sheet music pdfs that were deleted from my iCloud, but all the folders show they were modified on May 25th of last year. I didn't do anything to delete the files.

    Could you have briefly cancelled the service, or missed a payment due to a card problem? Funny if that would have left the folders intact, but empty. Is there any way someone else might have accessed your content?

  • jwmmakerofmusicjwmmakerofmusic

    @uncledave said:

    @jwmmakerofmusic said:
    Well I have no idea what user error there'd be. It wasn't just the sheet music pdfs that were deleted from my iCloud, but all the folders show they were modified on May 25th of last year. I didn't do anything to delete the files.

    Could you have briefly cancelled the service, or missed a payment due to a card problem? Funny if that would have left the folders intact, but empty. Is there any way someone else might have accessed your content?

    Perhaps it was something like that where someone hacked the account, but I'm not sure how. I think I will reach out to customer support sometime tomorrow. Didn't have any issues paying my monthly iCloud last year.

  • NeuMNeuM
    edited June 7

    @jwmmakerofmusic said:

    @uncledave said:

    @jwmmakerofmusic said:
    Well I have no idea what user error there'd be. It wasn't just the sheet music pdfs that were deleted from my iCloud, but all the folders show they were modified on May 25th of last year. I didn't do anything to delete the files.

    Could you have briefly cancelled the service, or missed a payment due to a card problem? Funny if that would have left the folders intact, but empty. Is there any way someone else might have accessed your content?

    Perhaps it was something like that where someone hacked the account, but I'm not sure how. I think I will reach out to customer support sometime tomorrow. Didn't have any issues paying my monthly iCloud last year.

    That's probably the best course of action, to contact them. Theoretically they should have a record of who logged in to your account, but it's also possible that might exceed the length of time for which they might keep records or backups.

    As long as I've had iCloud I've also had no problems, but obviously something has happened to your account which cannot be simply waved away.

  • jwmmakerofmusicjwmmakerofmusic

    @NeuM said:

    @jwmmakerofmusic said:

    @uncledave said:

    @jwmmakerofmusic said:
    Well I have no idea what user error there'd be. It wasn't just the sheet music pdfs that were deleted from my iCloud, but all the folders show they were modified on May 25th of last year. I didn't do anything to delete the files.

    Could you have briefly cancelled the service, or missed a payment due to a card problem? Funny if that would have left the folders intact, but empty. Is there any way someone else might have accessed your content?

    Perhaps it was something like that where someone hacked the account, but I'm not sure how. I think I will reach out to customer support sometime tomorrow. Didn't have any issues paying my monthly iCloud last year.

    That's probably the best course of action, to contact them. Theoretically they should have a record of who logged in to your account, but it's also possible that might exceed the length of time for which they might keep records or backups.

    As long as I've had iCloud I've also had no problems, but obviously something has happened to your account which cannot be simply waved away.

    Exactly. I haven't even opened iCloud in a long time and only first noticed this now. And iCloud has been solid and secure up until I noticed the change in the folder modified dates. Nothing has disappeared from folders since then either. All my Logic files are intact.

    But at least I can back up the sheet music pdfs from my 2017 iPad Pro to Dropbox. I can simply zip them up and upload that way.

  • NeuMNeuM

    @jwmmakerofmusic said:

    @NeuM said:

    @jwmmakerofmusic said:

    @uncledave said:

    @jwmmakerofmusic said:
    Well I have no idea what user error there'd be. It wasn't just the sheet music pdfs that were deleted from my iCloud, but all the folders show they were modified on May 25th of last year. I didn't do anything to delete the files.

    Could you have briefly cancelled the service, or missed a payment due to a card problem? Funny if that would have left the folders intact, but empty. Is there any way someone else might have accessed your content?

    Perhaps it was something like that where someone hacked the account, but I'm not sure how. I think I will reach out to customer support sometime tomorrow. Didn't have any issues paying my monthly iCloud last year.

    That's probably the best course of action, to contact them. Theoretically they should have a record of who logged in to your account, but it's also possible that might exceed the length of time for which they might keep records or backups.

    As long as I've had iCloud I've also had no problems, but obviously something has happened to your account which cannot be simply waved away.

    Exactly. I haven't even opened iCloud in a long time and only first noticed this now. And iCloud has been solid and secure up until I noticed the change in the folder modified dates. Nothing has disappeared from folders since then either. All my Logic files are intact.

    But at least I can back up the sheet music pdfs from my 2017 iPad Pro to Dropbox. I can simply zip them up and upload that way.

    I use Dropbox, iCloud and Google Drive. You can never have too many backups.

  • AudioGusAudioGus

    Trust no cloud.

  • yellow_eyezyellow_eyez
    edited June 7

    @AudioGus said:
    Trust no cloud.

    +1
    +2

    (What about to external HDD/ssd, flash, microSD, blu ray, etc?)

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  • NeuMNeuM

    @AudioGus said:
    Trust no cloud.

    I'd modify that to "Don't trust only one method of backup". As people who take these things seriously have said before, if you don't have a file backed up three different ways, "it doesn't exist".

  • jwmmakerofmusicjwmmakerofmusic

    I think what I'll do then is research flash drives I can use with both a lightning port and USB-C port. I don't think I'll need too much space for the PDFs, but my lesson is now learned. Holy shit, lol.

    Any brands of flash drives you can recommend me?

  • PoppadocrockPoppadocrock

    Do you have a ballpark total of How many files? All PDF’s? Any idea on total size of files?

    This has me concerned.

  • PoppadocrockPoppadocrock

    I’m livid there is no 1TB for $4.99 option.. I’m in a tricky predicament, either take lots of time cleaning, clearing iCloud or get 2TB at $10 a month that’s a big difference from $2.99 for 200GB.

    I also keep having trouble connecting iPad yo iCloud on 17.4.2 but I guess I’m about to update to 17.5 to see if that fixes it. My iPhone on 17.2.1 or something works fine with iCloud.

    I’ve had some recent frustration myself.

  • jwmmakerofmusicjwmmakerofmusic

    @Poppadocrock said:
    Do you have a ballpark total of How many files? All PDF’s? Any idea on total size of files?

    This has me concerned.

    Well, I'm not sure the total size. I'll be backing my pdfs to Dropbox from my 2017 iPad Pro (sheet music reader iPad), and tomorrow I will purchase a flash drive from Amazon. Honestly this brief scare freaked me out, but I got some plans. I also plan to have a word or two with Apple Support tomorrow.

  • NeuMNeuM

    @Poppadocrock said:
    I’m livid there is no 1TB for $4.99 option.. I’m in a tricky predicament, either take lots of time cleaning, clearing iCloud or get 2TB at $10 a month that’s a big difference from $2.99 for 200GB.

    I also keep having trouble connecting iPad yo iCloud on 17.4.2 but I guess I’m about to update to 17.5 to see if that fixes it. My iPhone on 17.2.1 or something works fine with iCloud.

    I’ve had some recent frustration myself.

    I'm still running iPadOS 16.7.8 and I have not had any problems connecting or accessing files. Is it possible you're looking at connection speed issues?

  • uncledaveuncledave

    @Poppadocrock said:
    I also keep having trouble connecting iPad yo iCloud on 17.4.2 but I guess I’m about to update to 17.5 to see if that fixes it. My iPhone on 17.2.1 or something works fine with iCloud.

    Sometimes it takes a restart (power off/on) to reset iCloud access.

  • michael_mmichael_m

    @jwmmakerofmusic said:
    I think what I'll do then is research flash drives I can use with both a lightning port and USB-C port. I don't think I'll need too much space for the PDFs, but my lesson is now learned. Holy shit, lol.

    Any brands of flash drives you can recommend me?

    Just be careful with flash drives as your main backup as they can fail and become inaccessible, particularly cheaper ones.

  • jwmmakerofmusicjwmmakerofmusic

    @michael_m said:

    @jwmmakerofmusic said:
    I think what I'll do then is research flash drives I can use with both a lightning port and USB-C port. I don't think I'll need too much space for the PDFs, but my lesson is now learned. Holy shit, lol.

    Any brands of flash drives you can recommend me?

    Just be careful with flash drives as your main backup as they can fail and become inaccessible, particularly cheaper ones.

    Ah, okay. What would you suggest as the best storage option, and which brand in particular? :)

  • michael_mmichael_m

    @jwmmakerofmusic said:

    @michael_m said:

    @jwmmakerofmusic said:
    I think what I'll do then is research flash drives I can use with both a lightning port and USB-C port. I don't think I'll need too much space for the PDFs, but my lesson is now learned. Holy shit, lol.

    Any brands of flash drives you can recommend me?

    Just be careful with flash drives as your main backup as they can fail and become inaccessible, particularly cheaper ones.

    Ah, okay. What would you suggest as the best storage option, and which brand in particular? :)

    Personally I use cloud storage and also dump things to an external hard drive so that I have redundancy for important files.

    I used to store backups of files on thumb drives, but have found them unreliable sometimes. After doing some online research a few years ago it seemed I wasn’t the only one, although I’m not sure how common this is.

    My external hard drive is a 1TB Samsung drive, and I haven’t had any problems with it over about 5 or 6 years of use.

  • jwmmakerofmusicjwmmakerofmusic

    @michael_m said:

    @jwmmakerofmusic said:

    @michael_m said:

    @jwmmakerofmusic said:
    I think what I'll do then is research flash drives I can use with both a lightning port and USB-C port. I don't think I'll need too much space for the PDFs, but my lesson is now learned. Holy shit, lol.

    Any brands of flash drives you can recommend me?

    Just be careful with flash drives as your main backup as they can fail and become inaccessible, particularly cheaper ones.

    Ah, okay. What would you suggest as the best storage option, and which brand in particular? :)

    Personally I use cloud storage and also dump things to an external hard drive so that I have redundancy for important files.

    I used to store backups of files on thumb drives, but have found them unreliable sometimes. After doing some online research a few years ago it seemed I wasn’t the only one, although I’m not sure how common this is.

    My external hard drive is a 1TB Samsung drive, and I haven’t had any problems with it over about 5 or 6 years of use.

    Cool. That's what I'll look up then. :) Thanks mate.

  • yellow_eyezyellow_eyez

    Samsung USB C mini flash is my favorite so far

  • jwmmakerofmusicjwmmakerofmusic

    @yellow_eyez said:
    Samsung USB C mini flash is my favorite so far

    Sounds good too. That hard drive 1tb is over $100. Seems the Samsung flash drive is $30 for 256gb. Not too bad.

  • yellow_eyezyellow_eyez
    edited June 8

    Yes and they work in smaller devices I heard like non iPad Pro, like iPad Air for sure, and I think someone said the iPhone 15 pro?

  • jwmmakerofmusicjwmmakerofmusic

    @yellow_eyez said:
    Yes and they work in smaller devices I heard like non iPad Pro, like iPad Air for sure, and I think someone said the iPhone 15 pro?

    We shall see. :)

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