Hi Tim, Thanks for this detailed response. I seem to have done exactly the same. The only thing was that when editing my document on my iPhone, I was away from home and thus on the celular connection. I wonder whether the celular connection was to blame. Otherwise I did exactly as you did. I certainly have icloud drive enabled on my macbook pro and I swear I had enabled it on my iphone. Is there a way I could double-check this last point? I've just started using Voice Dream Writer that has icloud storage capabilities and I notice that when editing my document in Writer, each time I change the document a new copy is created in my icloud drive so it kind of works but I'm astonished that the original document does not get modified but rather a new copy is created. Thanks for your help, Tim.
Andrew > On 17 Feb 2015, at 19:24, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > It looks like no-one else responded to your post, so, I’ll see if I can help > in any way. First, you should insure that you have iCloud Drive enabled on > both your iPhone and your Mac so syncing can actually occur. I tested the > following: > > • Opened a Pages document that resides in the Pages folder of my iCloud > Drive. Accessed by pressing cmd-shift-i from the Finder, opening the Pages > folder then opening the specific document. > • Added a few words at the beginning of the document then saved and closed it. > • Went into Pages on my iPhone and opened the same named document. > • The changes were not quite there but after about five seconds, the document > magically added the new words to the beginning. > > • I went back and read your eMail and noted that I should try things the > other direction too. So, I added a few more words to the document on my > iPhone this time. Then double-tapped the “Done” button and closed Pages on > my iPhone then locked it. > > • Pressed cmd-shift-i on my Mac, opened the Pages folder and opened the > document and the changes were instantly there this time. > > Just for your reference, I’m running a MacBook Pro, Late 2011 with 10.10.2 > and an iPhone 5 with iOS 8.1.3. Certainly, not the latest architecture, but > the latest software. So, in my case, the syncing worked as it should. The > only things I can think of is to ensure that iCloud Drive is enabled on both > devices as well as tapping the “Done” button from within the Pages app on > your iPhone to make sure that changes are saved. > > Sorry, can’t help with Word and your DropBox. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Feb 15, 2015, at 02:53, Andrew Lamanche <[email protected]> wrote: > > Listers, > > It's driving me nuts! I need to work with some documents when I'm not at > home. I have created a document in pages, I have saved it in icloud drive so > that I can open it on my iphone when I'm not at home. I've written to the > group about it before. What happens is that when I edit and add data to the > document when out and about using my iphone, when I get back home and open > the same document on my mac, the added text is not there. What am I missing? > This is crazy. My iphone is supposed to save the document in its latest form > into icloud drive, is that not right? I have Yosemite on my mac and latest > iOS on my iPhone. And here's something else. Frustrated with this behaviour > in Pages, I installed Word on my iPhone, and tried to use dropbox to save my > document to. Initially, I was excited because loading my document from > dropbox into Word was really easy, and I was impressed. Then during the day > I added text to my document in Word and saved it back into dropbox. When at > home I opened dropbox, located the document, Voiceover told me the time and > date of the document which was last time I modified it, I thought: great! > It's working. I opened the document in Pages on my Mac and guess what? The > text I had added during the day in Word on my iphone was not there. I wanted > to scream. What's happening? Has anyone got the idea why? Is there any > other way I can reliably work with a document between my mac and my iPhone? > > Andrew > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
