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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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The point is, however, that this background backup process will be trying to backup open files and that will inevitably lead to data corruption. Don’t do it!