No in-place editing of Desktop/Document iCloud-backed folders

Lettera
1

I dragged a folder, ~/Desktop/my-folder, to the Lettera sidebar and instead of being able to edit the files it would seem that the folder was copied to iCloud/my-folder. Any edits I make are saved to iCloud/my-folder instead of my actual ~/Desktop/my-folder folder.

(Both my Documents and Desktop folders are iCloud synced)

Is that a bug, or by design?

2

Until Lettera gets the promised ability to change the default folder from iCloud, that’s where everything ends up right now. The great advantage of iCloud is that all your Macs can access it so it gives consistency across Macs/devices (iOS/iPadOS when that gets developed).

3

Hello folks,

There’s some understandable confusion here, and it’s on us; we’re already discussing how to make this clearer in the app.

The key thing: Lettera’s sidebar is a 1:1 mapping of a single folder on disk. By default it shows the iCloud Lettera folder, simply because that’s the one location we’re granted access to out of the box. From there:

  1. Dropping something into the sidebar copies it into the folder that window represents (hence the copy landing in iCloud).
  2. But you’re not limited to iCloud — you can open any folder via File → Open… or by dropping it onto Lettera’s Dock icon.

So for your case: to edit ~/Desktop/my-folder in place, don’t drag it into the sidebar: open it instead (File → Open… or drop it on the Dock icon). Lettera will then map the sidebar to that folder, and your edits go straight to the real files on your Desktop. No copy, and no need to wait for the configurable-default-folder feature :slightly_smiling_face: