How to Enable Sync Feature in Amazon Cloud Drive?
How to Mount an Amazon S3 Bucket as a Drive with S3FS. In this section, we’ll show you how to mount an Amazon S3 file system step by step. Mounting an Amazon S3 bucket using S3FS is a simple process: by following the steps below, you should be able to start experimenting with using Amazon S3 as a drive on your computer immediately. If you’re buying all your apps, music, movies, and books on Amazon, Amazon automatically saves it in the “cloud” and you can simply login on your computer to Amazon and transfer everything that way. Of course, you can manually transfer photos that you’ve uploaded to Amazon Cloud Drive to your computer.
Amazon provides you Amazon Cloud Drive, which help you to store files, documents, music, etc.to the cloud to secure your data. However, Amazon cloud drive does not offer file syncfeatures in web while the app Amazon Photos (also called Amazon Backup) for Windows/IOS/Android supports sync feature.
Although Amazon Drive does not offer sync feature in web, you could still use it, here is howto enable sync feature in Amazon Photos application in Windows 10:
1. Open Amazon Photos interface, click Settings icon at the top right cornerto go to Preferences.
2. Select Sync tab, and choose Enable Sync.
3. And the Amazon Photos will restart and your desktop will get Amazon Drive shortcut for youto sync. Amazon Photos will inform you to choose Amazon Drive Folder tosave the sync files, and select Local Sync Folder (by default, it’s locatedin C:/Users/Your username/Amazon Drive if you not modify the location), press Startsync button.
4. Choose Sync tab on the main window of Amazon Photos, and drag and dropyour files to Amazon Photos, specify the location, and click Select, itwill start sync now.
Amazon Cloud Drive Not Syncing Issue
Nevertheless, its sync features is a headache for many users. They can’t find these syncedfiles in Amazon drive after the sync operation finished, or could not sync files that they want, or it’s just stuck while syncing.
Besides, Amazon Photos becomes unresponsive sometimes. In a word, Amazon cloud drive notsyncing problems are highlighted.
How to Synchronize Files to Amazon Cloud Drive Automatically?
As a matter of fact, in addition to Amazon Cloud Drive, you can turn to the best Amazon CloudDrive sync tool - AOMEI Backupper Professional, which is aprofessional file syncing software for most popular operating systems, like Windows XP,Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 (including 32-bit and 64-bit).
AOMEI Backupper is more flexible than Amazon Cloud Drive, and it is capable of real timefiles/folders syncing and automatic files/folders sync to local hard drive, external harddrive, NAS devices, network share, CD/DVD and clouds, etc. In contrast, Amazon Drive doesnot support external hard drive.
Now, follow me to synchronize files to Amazon Cloud Drive automatically with AOMEI BackupperProfessional edition to repair Amazon Cloud not syncing problem. First, you may have todownload AOMEI Backupper Professional to have a try.
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1. Launch AOMEI Backupper Professional, at the left column, select Sync,then choose Real-Time Sync.
2. Input a proper name into Task Name box in next window. And clickAdd Folder to select the specific files or folders to sync.
Tips: You can customize the files you want to synchronize with Filtersettings.
3. Select Amazon Cloud Drive as the target to save the files or folders.
4. Press Start Sync to sync files to Amazon Cloud Driveautomatically.
You could sync many files and folders to cloud drive at once. Furthermore, AOMEI BackupperProfessional allows you to clone operating system(OS), partition and entire hard drive to cloud, mergebackup images, restore system to dissimilar hardware computer, createevent-triggered schedule backups and command line backup,etc. You will find the best way to do backup and restore operations.
Before you begin
- Update your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to the latest iOS or iPadOS, and your Mac to the latest macOS.
- Set up iCloud on all of your devices.
- Make sure that you’re signed in to iCloud with the same Apple ID on all of your devices.
- If you have a Windows PC, update to Windows 7 or later and download iCloud for Windows.
If you have a device that can't update to the latest iOS or macOS, see the minimum system requirements to use iCloud Drive.
Get started
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Set up iCloud Drive everywhere that you want to access and edit your files.
On your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
- Go to Settings > [your name].
- Tap iCloud.
- Turn on iCloud Drive.
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You can find your iCloud Drive files in the Files app.
If you're using iOS 10 or iOS 9, tap Settings > iCloud > iCloud Drive. Turn on iCloud Drive, and tap Show on Home Screen. Then you'll find your files in the iCloud Drive app.
On your Mac
- Go to Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Apple ID. If you’re using macOS Mojave or earlier, you don’t need to click Apple ID.
- Select iCloud.
- Sign in with your Apple ID, if you need to.
- Select iCloud Drive.
If you want to add the files from your Mac Desktop and Documents folder to iCloud Drive, update your Mac to macOS Sierra or later then turn on Desktop and Documents. On your Mac, you can find the files on your Desktop and in your Documents folder in Finder under iCloud. If you add a second Mac Desktop, the files from your second Mac won't automatically merge with the files on your first Mac. Go to your Desktop and Documents folders in iCloud Drive, then look for a folder with the same name as your second Mac.
On iCloud.com
- Sign in to iCloud.com.
- Select Pages, Numbers, or Keynote.
- Click Upgrade to iCloud Drive, if you are asked to upgrade.
On your Windows PC
After you set up iCloud Drive on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac, you can set it up on your Windows PC.
- Go to Start, open Apps or Programs, and open iCloud for Windows.
- Enter your Apple ID to sign in to iCloud.
- Select iCloud Drive, then click Apply.
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What's next
After you set up iCloud Drive, any documents that you've already stored in iCloud are automatically moved to iCloud Drive. Your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch keep your files in the Files app in addition to the Pages, Numbers, and Keynote apps. If you don't see your files in these apps, they might be on a device that doesn't have iCloud Drive turned on.
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Learn more about using iCloud Drive.