Access project stored in iCloud on OS X

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I'm coming back to a project that I haven't worked on for over a year.  All of the project source files are stored in a folder that is in my iCloud drive (I am on a MacBook Pro with fully updated OS X (as of 28Jan16).  Perhaps I'm just being dumb, but I couldn't find anyway to directly open that project from within PyCharm's file manager.  I know I could always copy the files locally, but I would prefer to NOT do that.  

Is it possible to access the project files, with PyCharm, directly from within iCloud Drive?

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Paul Everitt
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The iCloud Drive doesn't appear as part of the regular filesystem (unlike Dropbox and others) so the JetBrains file picker dialog can't see it.

This article describes how to actually find the sorta-directory on your filesystem.

Based on that, I just did a symbolic link from a directory in the iCloud Drive, to my desktop. I was then able to open it in PyCharm and it created the .idea subdirectory. 

There might be better approaches, but this might be a good start.

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Dave Lehrer
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Ten years on and this still doesn't appear to be possible. Methods that don't work:

  • directly load the file with File > Open,
  • directly load the file with File > Open, CMD-G and enter path,
  • dragging the file onto the PyCharm application,
  • Terminal > `open -a PyCharm [path to file],
  • Creating a symlink to the target file.

There may be a buried setting someplace that allows it, but the only thing I've been able to get to work reliably is dragging a copy of the file to the desktop, editing the file, and then replacing the iCloud Drive file with the modified version. A less ideal solution is to use another product like BBEdit which can open the file in situ.

p.s. Paul Everitt 's referenced link is no longer available.

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