Nay, the fault was in Apple’s client software.Īpple didn’t talk about it much, but iDisk is an implementation of the WebDAV protocol. There’s the rub: the fault was never in iDisk’s cloud storage service. With this in mind, you might be wondering, Fair Reader, how it is that I come to praise iDisk. Even worse, services such as Dropbox demonstrated that cloud-based storage could work very, very well. While this document was welcome, iDisk just suffered in silence, largely ignored by users and (apparently) Apple alike.
The Finder was prone to spinlock if an iDisk was mounted, and its read and write speeds left one pondering sneakernet fondly.Īpple’s support document, “ iDisk Performs Slowly” attempted to document and elucidate the reasons why iDisk might be slow.
Additional services, such as Backup and Sharing, were layered on over the years, but the performance issues remained. While iPhoto and iWeb turned publishing of photos and pages on the Internet into single-beer tasks, iDisk confounded users with frustratingly slow performance. Introduced as part of Apple’s “beyond the box” iTools at the 2000 Macworld Expo (see “ Jobs’s Macworld Keynote Unveils Mac-Centric Internet Services,” 5 January 2000), iDisk has been almost universally derided.
#Itools for mac 2012 update
A small but significant item appeared in the 10.7.4 release notes: “Improve performance when connecting to a WebDAV server.” This update is great news for WebDAV users, but bittersweet for the millions of people who cursed iDisk over the years. What? Apple finally fixed iDisk now? On the eve of its demise? Indeed. And it will remain so until… MobileMe’s sunset on 30 June 2012.
It is leaps and bounds faster than before.
#Itools for mac 2012 mac os x
If you have updated to Mac OS X 10.7.4, give iDisk another try.
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