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In Mountain Lion, I have iCloud activated for Documents. I'd like document-saved-in-the-cloud to be an option, but not the default, as in "if I choose iCloud from the dropdown, save in iCloud, else save in my current folder".
Is it possible?
If it is not, I'll disable the "Documents and Data" switch in System Preferences > iCloud, but it raises the question: how can I list all information currently stored in iCloud, and save them to some real-world folder?
iWork for Mac, at the time of writing of this post, has not been updated to work with iCloud.
Last version on the App Store came out in July, 20th, and does not have iCloud integration.
Meanwhile, you can upload and download documents from this page, which is a web interface to iCloud. The process is described in this guide.
iCloud documents are cached locally in ~/Library/Mobile Documents (~ represents your home folder).
They're synchronized via HTTPS (even when the application is closed) and the files (some of them, at least), are stored on Amazon S3.
When opening, editing and saving a TextEdit document from iCloud, these requests are made :
POST request to https://p**-ubiquity.icloud.com/ub/*********/rwsync/********…POST request to https://p**-content.icloud.com/*********/authorizePutPUT request to Amazon S3POST request to https://p**-content.icloud.com/*********/putCompletePOST request to https://p**-ubiquity.icloud.com/ub/*********/rwsync/********…POST request to https://p**-ubiquity.icloud.com/ub/*********/rosync/********…
Best Answer
To change the default to local just write in a terminal:
To change back to iCloud first, type: