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Just starting to use iCloud for photo sharing. Not finding it either very user-friendly nor very evident.
I am using Beginners Guide To Mac plus stuff I find on the web.
These tell me just click on photos in Photos (that's what I've got not and the other thingy that went before I read about) and drag-and-drop them into the Icloud Drive, and which I open from Finder. So on top of photos I have the Finder mask and I see the iCloud Drive which I have cleared of all items.
So I click on some photos in order to drag them - and then Finder with its iCloud promptly vanishes!. {Is/are fairly general thing I'm finding with other manipulations. Am I missing something? Is is essential I now start learning about split screen before I can do anything else?)
So instead I tried the Share button. I get asked who it's shared with, I give it an e-mail which it recognises, and it moves a photo file up into the 'shared' parts of the file list in
Photos. In that list there are some other 'shared' folders which I don't remember doing this procedure with - I
(I'm not sure how these got there as I do not remember doing this thing before. I think I shared the files in question the via dropbox on iPad or another computer, and now the Mac knows about them. I also thought to use dropbox which I used in the past with iPad Windows computer with my Mac, but when I looked into how on the web it appears that is a can of worms!)
Now MY MAIN QUESTION which I didn't see anybody explaining on my sources is how does the recipient know of these things I'm sending? How do I know he knows? I mean in dropbox whenever I shared an email went to the recipient and a copy to me to say I am sharing these photos with the recipient. I find it perplexing that I give the info but there is no sign that some action is taken on it.
I am using Beginners Guide To Mac plus stuff I find on the web.
These tell me just click on photos in Photos (that's what I've got not and the other thingy that went before I read about) and drag-and-drop them into the Icloud Drive, and which I open from Finder. So on top of photos I have the Finder mask and I see the iCloud Drive which I have cleared of all items.
So I click on some photos in order to drag them - and then Finder with its iCloud promptly vanishes!. {Is/are fairly general thing I'm finding with other manipulations. Am I missing something? Is is essential I now start learning about split screen before I can do anything else?)
So instead I tried the Share button. I get asked who it's shared with, I give it an e-mail which it recognises, and it moves a photo file up into the 'shared' parts of the file list in
Photos. In that list there are some other 'shared' folders which I don't remember doing this procedure with - I
(I'm not sure how these got there as I do not remember doing this thing before. I think I shared the files in question the via dropbox on iPad or another computer, and now the Mac knows about them. I also thought to use dropbox which I used in the past with iPad Windows computer with my Mac, but when I looked into how on the web it appears that is a can of worms!)
Now MY MAIN QUESTION which I didn't see anybody explaining on my sources is how does the recipient know of these things I'm sending? How do I know he knows? I mean in dropbox whenever I shared an email went to the recipient and a copy to me to say I am sharing these photos with the recipient. I find it perplexing that I give the info but there is no sign that some action is taken on it.