Open Beta Version 3.7.0

peter Why would you expect restoring backups to behave different?

If you accidentally restore wrong backup on any device it could erase all your work on all the other devices, having it not be connected to iCloud would save you accidentally loosing precious work unless you always make a full backup of iCloud when you touch iCloud button you could create data loss by using full restore.
I’d rather when I load my full restore have the software shut down on me and turn off iCloud then corrupt my whole iCloud immediately, a warning is not good enough it’s still too late once you hit the wrong choice and it could mean days and days of work gone.
Perhaps I am paranoid but time will tell once people start using it for real.

peter Not enough space for that on an iPhone. And it means exactly sync this device content to the cloud. What else could it mean.

It could mean, sync iCloud to this device, or, sync this device to iCloud, they do 2 different things but which one is it when you press it.
The third is sync both ways keep identical files on both and add different files to both so no files are lost and end up available on both devices.
It’s fine if you already know exactly what it is but not fine if you are new to ST3.

I have changed to different wifi that appears to be faster and more reliable.
I turned off iCloud on iPhone, Deleted the iCloud loaded a full backup 1648 files and left the device to do its thing before bed I checked the device 4am and it seems to be stuck on 1422 with sync greyed out meaning it’s syncing but nothing appears to be happening all my files on device are still present, I don’t know what I should do now, I will try and restart program, then resync st3 folder, then turn off and on iCloud again and see what happens.

I have just restarted my ST3 program on iPhone.
The sync indicator is now blue and the message is last sync was at 4am approx as I could not see the rest on iPhone in portrait mode.
Now I still don’t know if I am fully synced to iCloud as there is no iCloud file count present and iPhone file count to compare the two to confirm my sync situation, I assume because the sync indicator is blue it is not in sync as it’s telling me you can press me now to sync up, if it was grey I would assume all is in sync you don’t need to press me it’s all in sync. This is what’s going through my mind as I am trying to sync to iCloud, I am also wondering is it a good time to start syncing to my iPad now, but I don’t know there is no real confirmation that iCloud is fully synced so perhaps I will leave it till breakfast around 7am and start with iPad sync.

As you can see syncing for first time to iCloud with 2648 files is not really you want to do regularly as it’s not a fast process at the moment and there is not enough indication to what is happening, I am sure with much lesser file count it might work much faster but I regard my file count reasonably average , as if I was more a DJ my file count would be much much larger.
So my conclusion this morning is, iCloud is not functioning as described at the moment, I have sent email reports and will send another as I finish this message,
Good luck with it.
Cheers Damir

Just as I completed the message went back to settings I see the iCloud has started syncing again from 2648 and counting down the sync button is greyed out , now I see, you are not allowing us to sync once syncing is in progress so you have greyed out this button, but then the button becomes blue once everything is in sync, this makes no sense why allow us to hit sync if we are in sync, the sync button should be blue while syncing so we can trigger a restart the sync, and go grey as iCloud and device is in sync meaning you no longer need to press this button so it’s not needed and it’s grey. And a visual file count of both iCloud folder and st3 folder to confirm this state of sync.
Also faster response time of indication is needed so as you do a selection it gives you quicker feedback so you don’t assume things are not happening yet they are but 5 to 10 minutes later , this delay creates great confusion, perhaps an indicator to show things are in progress.

This morning 1030 am my iPhone has 2648 active as expected my iCloud it had a message when it synced last which was about 5 am because I couldn’t see the rest of the message i could not read the full time as I was in portrait mode as I was writing this so I had an idea of turning it to landscape so I went back to read the exact time but it was updated to the current time of 1036am but I still don’t know if I am really in sync with iCloud as I don’t have a file count of iCloud compared to ST3 device folder file count to confirm , the sync button is blue which could mean I am out of sync because it is allowing me to hit it , this should be grey now if the iCloud and device are in sync , why would I want to hit it?
This is what’s confusing me , I have no idea if the device is in sync , a simple file count of both folders is all I need and I don’t really care when it has occurred as it keeps changing continuously the date even time don’t mean much to me , but seeing a comparison file count means something as it’s confirming the most important thing that devices and icltare in sync , I do not care how many days or minutes ago , when working its continually changing anyway but it’s not telling me am I in sync.

My need is

iCloud file count 2648
Device file count 2648

Sync is blue when needing a sync
Sync is grey when in sync

An indication something is happening even though it might not be obvious at the time.

The rest I don’t need at all as it’s continually changing anyway it does nothing for me.

I assume my iPhone and iCloud is synced, now I will try to sync to iPad, as I leave to check out this old town in Sicily I will leave my iPad to hopefully do its thing when I come back I expect an identical song count to iPhone,
Cheers Damir