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Originally Posted by HugoGernsback
I don't think it's exactly the same scenario as a NAS. The way iCloud is implemented on the Mac is that your documents are stored locally and synchronized in the background with the copies in iCloud. So applications aren't actually trying to read or write to remote files, they are reading and writing local files that a background process then copies up to the cloud. Think of it as similar to Carbonite or any other cloud-based backup solution.
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Perhaps think of it as a cloud backup solution that can and will take a backup copy of an in-use file. Unless your applications are designed for this type of use, it can end up with your files resembling scrambled eggs. Not a "feature" of iCloud alone -- Google Drive and Dropbox also have this miscapability.