In that folder, I find all my folders and files. That's the iCloud Drive by another name, because when I open Mobile Documents, it shows me a Finder Window titled iCloud Drive, and one of the folders is the Documents folder with the "dog-eared" paper icon on it. I see that in my ~/Library folder, there is a folder called Mobile Documents. Not that I'm a Terminal guru, far from it, but the "Mobile\Documents" part confuses me. Thanks for your attentiveness to this thread. I wonder if this strategy would get rid of the error message (see post #1) and put my mind at ease with the assurance that files are getting copied to backups as before. So if I copy the files to a new ~/Documents folder, I'd be back to what I was used to.
Only now am I realizing that this was not in my Home folder, as had always been the case, but is on the iCloud Drive.
I copied them to the Documents folder that was in the Sidebar. I restored my files to the new hard drive from my flash drive. From El Capitan through Mojave, this was my practice. When Apple introduced the iCloud Drive, I only used it as a backup to my backup on the flash drive, replacing those files about once a month by copying the contents of the flash drive to the iCloud Drive. I copied all the files (not a massive amount) to a flash drive, then, when any individual file was edited and saved, it got copied to the flash drive, replacing the old one. I wonder if I should move all my files to a folder on my hard drive.īefore the iCloud Drive existed, my most important files were always in ~/Documents. I guess I'm wrong about where my Documents folder is. I'm also wondering if this issue is going to hose up my Time Machine backups. I was hoping to copy it and solve whatever that issue was. Apparently the last time it was copied to the flash drive, there was an issue. I thought one purpose of locking a file is so that it can't be changed unless you unlock it.(?) Anyway, I don't get why this message pops up if another locked file can be copied to the flash drive.(!)įolder "A" had a notation "Waiting to Upload" in the Finder Window. When I reopened the file, the change was there. I also opened the file, made a change, then saved and closed it. I copied it to the flash drive, and got the alert sound signifying success. I'd rather not have to unlock all my files, if I can get unlocking to stick!įrom a different folder, I checked a file, and it was locked. However, when I close the Get Info window and then check it again for that same file, it's Locked again! I have only checked in two folders, but I suspect that all my files are locked.
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Unlocking by clicking that and entering the Admin password opens the padlock. I'm seeing a closed padlock in the lower right corner of the Get Info dialog boxes. Yes, all these folders and files are in my Home/Documents folder.
I tried chflags -R nouchg ~/Documents in Terminal, and that had no effect on files that I checked still locked. I just want to be able to copy files to my flash drive.
I don't know how the files became locked (I have a theory), but for now, I don't care. So, my goal here is to discover a way to unlock all files, or not, if that's not necessary. In trying to copy a folder "A" (which contains files, and other folders with files) to a flash drive, I got an error that said the operation could not be completed, because some files were locked.
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