The Practical Guide To Mac Security: Part 14, iCloud Drive (MacMost  

I learn something new in every one of your videos. Thanks Gary for continuing education.

Another excellent and very informative video tutorial today! I so appreciate the visuals so when I do these things I can follow along correctly. Thank you, Gary! 👏👍🏻❤️

I’ll have to watch the part about optimized files again (and again). My new MacBook Pro has 512gb and I have Dropbox. I migrated from my 2014 MacBook Pro also 512gb but had been getting sooo slow. Not much free space, so I need to make good choices! Your videos always help, Gary. Thank you!

You have given us many superb, helpful videos but these ‘Practical Guide to Mac Security’ has to be the best. Some I already know about but most I do not. For the ones I do, it’s still nice to have your knowledge and methods. For the others, thanks. Gary your great. God bless you.

best explanation ever. ty gary :D

Thank you

That helped!

Again Gary you’ve educated me to storing files in different places….

Gary hi. security style question please. I want to share files and mp4 video clips from my drive and I only want the recipient to be able to view. No matter what settings I use and after speaking with google one support, whatever I send is able to be shared, downloaded, copied. Only thing I manage to stop was printing, I followed all the steps, but no joy, any ideas/tips please ? thank you B

I am learning MacOS on a late 2013 MacBook - with a 120GB or so SSD. I have pieceparts ordered to build and add an external 1 TB SSD drive. Will iCloud contain copies of both internal and external drives? Is there a setting I need to enable to do this? Do I need to "move" the location of the iCloud Documents and Desktop "folders" to the external drive in order to take advantage of its size? Is there a comprehensive document or manual that describes iCloud's features and functionality - along with how users can affect the functionality via settings, etc.? Hopefully this will all start coming into contextual understanding as I continue to educate and practice. I have used Windows since the beginning - MS-DOS before that.....

Can just use Cryptomator… works well

Hi Sir! Suddenly, my WD external hard drive is not getting mounted on to my Mac. I am using Mac BigSur with version 11.5 My WD external hard disk is APFS encrypted formatted version. I know my password and my username given to my hard disk while formatting. After googling a lot, I understood that for spinning 2.5 inch external hard drive, APFS format is not good. But now, I need to mount it. Please help me with the terminal commands to mount my external hard disk to my Mac. Thanks a lot in advance. I am awaiting for your guidance.

I jumped from #8 to #14 in this series. Not smart. I was lost with much of this content. Perhaps also watching and learning the basics of Mac (and even computers in general) is more prudent than watching this entire series first, at least out of sequence.

Can you limit how much space iCloud drive takes on your optimized local drive?

I don’t use iCloud Drive on my Mac purely because it tries to download all my files. I don’t want that. The “Optimise” option didn’t help either.

why there's no option for turning off the two factor authentication? THis is annoying

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Just one point: 2FA makes your iCloud content LESS secure! Anyone with access to you SIM card can reset the password and get in. Apple really broke this. 2FA is nice, but it should never ever allow to reset the password! Loose password -> loose account! This is the only secure way to do this.

Iv'e had files suddenly disappear from iCloud drive ... Don't trust it.

Sorry, my first dislike on one of your videos. There’s a grave error: files in iCloud are not encrypted as you mention in the beginning. They are only encrypted during the transfer, which makes them accessible by Apple’s employees and the government (by legal request) when they’re at Apple’s servers.