Accessing iCloud Drive app folders

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Accessing iCloud Drive app folders Thu Apr 30, 2015 10:25 pm • by LegoDragon
Hazel appears to be locked out of folders like GoodReader, Pages, Keynote, etc. Rules don't affect their contents, and they don't show up alongside other folders in iCloud drive when I use Hazel's preview feature. Perhaps OS X 3rd party apps out of iOS app folders? I'd love a workaround.
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Re: Accessing iCloud Drive app folders Fri May 01, 2015 4:19 pm • by Mr_Noodle
Not sure what you are referring to here. Can you provide a screenshot?
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Re: Accessing iCloud Drive app folders Mon Jun 01, 2015 11:00 pm • by LegoDragon
Here's a screen shot showing the GoodReader app folder in iCloud Drive (left) that's not showing up in Hazel's preview (right). https://www.dropbox.com/s/sqe3cf4evausy ... M.png?dl=0 Image
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Re: Accessing iCloud Drive app folders Tue Jun 02, 2015 3:03 pm • by Mr_Noodle
Keep in mind that iCloud drive is somewhat "fake". The view the Finder shows and what Hazel can actually access are two different things. If you are command-line savvy, you can check your ~/Library/MobileDocuments directory to see how the stuff actually appears. Unfortunately, Apple has chosen this route instead of providing it as a normal filesystem.
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Re: Accessing iCloud Drive app folders Sat Jun 18, 2016 5:23 am • by BernSh
I just wanted to move files that a 3rd party app saved to its own iCloud folder and ran into this issue of Hazel not seeing it. As a workaround I found that Keyboard Maestro can see and move these 3rd party iCloud folder contents. While there may be other ways to do I I found that Keyboard Maestro needed a "time trigger" rather than be polling the folder all the time or the action would fail.

Just set this up yesterday and so don't know what the long-term results will be.
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