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Ask HN: Did macOS Sonoma break your iCloud setup?

by reimertz on 1/2/24, 3:26 PM with 4 comments

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.

I stupidly updated to Sonoma without doing a backup and now, nothing works. I cannot even copy files between folders.

All I get is

  The operation can’t be completed because one or more required items can’t be found. (Error code -43)
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.

Anyone else having these issues?

Some references:

  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/

  • by runjake on 1/2/24, 4:20 PM

    Nope, the upgrade was pretty seamless and uneventful, thankfully.

    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.

    A warning, not an admonishment: Use Apple services in a novel or unsupported manner and you're asking for trouble.

    For synchronizing dotfiles, certain app settings and such, I use Syncthing.

  • by menshiki on 1/4/24, 3:10 AM

    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.

  • by kevinherron on 1/2/24, 5:50 PM

    Sonoma has been trouble free for me, but I'm not doing anything weird with iCloud Drive.