iCloud Drive is backing up files you haven't saved yet
The line between local and remote storage started blurring long ago. The moment you could save a file from within a program on a Mac or other OS to something that wasn't a physically connected hard drive--whether a network file server, a remote AFP volume elsewhere on the Internet, or a Finder-mounted whatever--you had to make a conscious effort to remember what was entirely within your control and what was not. Sure, remote files used to take longer to save: we'd watch a progress bar or beachball on larger files, and the latency reminded us.
Glenn Fleishman | 07 Nov | Read more