Apple iCloud is a defacto candidate for Cloud service if you own a Mac or other Apple devices. After signing up on your Mac with your Apple ID you get 1GB of space. After 2 steps verification on a second device you get 5GB of space.
iCloud is shown as a destination in the Finder sidebar. If it's not showing up, go to Finder, Settings, and check the iCloud Drive and Shared options under iCloud items.
When iCloud shows up, it is available like another folder onto your Mac. You can create new subfolders, rename, re-organize, add items by dragging or copy/pasting just like you would in any other folder on your Mac.
If you go to iCloud on the web and log-in with the same AppleID, you will see whatever you do on your Mac iCloud folder being synced up and mirrored on the web, and vice versa.
All is nice and dandy. Now for the details:
- If you move an item by clicking and dragging it from your Mac internal drive to iCloud, it disappears from your internal drive and now lives in the Cloud only.
- If you copy and paste an item on the other end, you now have two different files, one on your internal drive and another in iCloud. The original file that's not in iCloud will not be synced.
- The web iCloud is lacking in features, the first one is that it does not display files extensions, but instead has a column for files "Kind" which I'm not a fan of.
- The columns on iCloud web are: "Name", "Kind", "Size", "Date" (of upload) and "Shared". You cannot resize columns and you cannot customize them unlike what is possible in the Finder. That is if you are in List view, the other option is Grid view, unfortunately the size is not adjustable.
- Not all file types have a preview. WAV audio files, RTF files have none. PDFs or Numbers do. MOV weirdly do not, and even using spacebar doesn't playback the file. On the other end, double clicking on a MOV file will open it in an additional browser window, if the codec is compatible.
- 50 GB: $0.99
- 200 GB: $2.99
- 2 TB: $9.99
- 6 TB: $29.99
- 12 TB: $59.99
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