I have a pretty delicate setup where I symlink into my iCloud Drive folder to keep documents, .dot-files etc. synced between my devices, using .nosync folder extension to ignore folders such at git projects etc.<p>I stupidly updated to Sonoma without doing a backup and now, nothing works. I cannot even copy files between folders.<p>All I get is<p><pre><code> The operation can’t be completed because one or more required items can’t be found. (Error code -43)
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And the more I've read about this, it seems Sonoma is a nightmare for a lot of people. People loosing years of work just by updating.<p>Anyone else having these issues?<p>Some references:<p><pre><code> https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255162138
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255183704
https://eclecticlight.co/2023/10/25/macos-sonoma-has-changed-icloud-drive-radically/</code></pre>
Nope, the upgrade was pretty seamless and uneventful, thankfully.<p>I do use iCloud Drive within the intended purposes as described by Apple. I wouldn't use it for situations Apple does not explicitly support -- at least not without 3-2-1 style backups.<p>A warning, not an admonishment: Use Apple services in a novel or unsupported manner and you're asking for trouble.<p>For synchronizing dotfiles, certain app settings and such, I use Syncthing.
I use iCloud more as an archive where I put things I am not actively working on. I didn't encounter any issues with Sonoma but I believe your use case is a lot more advanced.