Chao Peter, I have just updated my two devices iPhone and iPad to 16.4 and decided to try iCloud sync to see how it works using 3.7 8725,
Firstly I also decided to restore full backup of 2648 files on my iPhone , this was very fast to do and the iPhone was happy , iCloud sync was turned on .
The iCloud indicator on iPhone tells me when the last sync was and the sync now button is lit blue , on I iPad the same notification is present with no sync movement indicating and I have most of my files missing now on iPad , no indication that the iPad is syncing itself, this is not reassuring to user as nothing seems to be happening and virtually all files are missing, as I went back to iPhone that appeared to be as expected and exited the program , when I fired it up again virtually all the songs were missing just like on the Ipad , so now I have no devices working and no indication to what is happening as both sync indicators are just telling me the last date and time of sync but no notification of any sync still happening .
This is not good.
The reason I tried this all over from start was to test the new operating system but also when I managed to get both devices in almost perfect sync with all files present there was one file still missing on one device which I decided to delete on the unit that had it so both would be in perfect sync, so then I thought I would try all over again to see if all 2648 files would sync up on both devices but now I have a dogs breakfast all over again on both devices with no indication to what is happening with iCloud sync.
What I expect to happen is if I load my full backup on any device with iCloud sync enabled this should be an indicator that I want all my other devices with iCloud turned on, to sync up to this new full backup restore , I expect the device that has loaded a full backup to be instantly ready and the iCloud to sync up to this device if the iCloud was enabled, if the iCloud was disabled then I expect if I enable it and choose to sync to iCloud for this device to clear all old iCloud data and update itself with the new sync and any other devices slaved to iCloud to update themselves.
There has to be some working order present you cant just have all devices adding to iCloud without having a reset where you can start fresh other wise things will always spiral out of control.
The sync now button if not lit should indicate the device and iCloud is in sync so there is no need to press it, if it’s lit up it should mean you need to hit it to sync up with iCloud, at the moment I don’t know what it means as it doesn't seem to do anything when I hit it nothing appears to happen all I get is a very temporary message of Sync Started but nothing appears to be happening.
So at present I have two devices with most songs missing and no indication if anything is happening with iCloud turned on on both ,
It appears to get things back to normal at least on one device I need to turn off the iCloud and reload my full backup again, perhaps a full backup restore on the device should automatically disable iCloud sync to avoid this possible iCloud sync mess.
This then keeps it safer to the operator not accidentally stuffing up iCloud , then once a full backup is restored it’s the operators choice to sync with iCloud, I still don’t understand why we can’t easily clear all iCloud from any device and load new iCloud data from any device for other devices to follow.
Do we need to have all devices iCloud turned off to allow one device to update the cloud , then go to all other device ST3 folders and delete all song data , before turning on all device iCloud, so then all devices get the same data from the first device,
I really don’t know what I should do to start from scratch and have all devices to have the same data present.
Peter is there a procedure to follow, so far I haven’t managed to get two devices to be in perfect sync no matter how hard I tried.
Cheers Damir