Nov 28, '11 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: Anonymous
What I did on my iMac running Lion is to link (with ln -s) the iCloud 'Mobile Documents' folder (in ~/Library) to my Dropbox folder with something like (substitute the actual user's short name for 'username' in the command):
ln -s /Users/username/Library/Mobile Documents /Users/username/Dropbox/iCloud
Then, on the MacBook Pro, the shared documents are available in the ~/DropBox/iCloud folder.
For example GoodReader on the iPad has iCloud support, so I can directly put PDFs from my MacBook Pro in this directory, and they appear directly in GoodReader. As soon as other iOS programs support Documents on iCloud, this will be extended to them as well.
You can also use this with iWork documents, but beware, make sure you put a copy of the documents from your OSX machine to iCloud, as reading them under IOS 5 changes the format irreversibly (for now).
Note: This of course requires your Lion machine to be on and connected.
[crarko adds: This is similar to the method of this previous hint, and the same caveats apply. Since doing the procedure described in these hints are unsupported by Apple, there is a possibility that you'll lose files/folders placed in ~/Library/Mobile Documents if changes to the underlying structure occur. So proceed at your own risk, and be sure there are backup copies of the files you try this with.
For my own use, since I don't make use of iCloud at this time, I just do my sharing directly in Dropbox, which of course is limited to those apps which support it. But GoodReader, mentioned above, fortunately has excellent Dropbox support. As a counterexample, iWork (for iOS) does not.]
