SiYuan wants to access files managed by "iCloud Drive"

After keep SiYuan running in background for a while, a permission request popped up, asking for access to the files managed by "iCloud Drive." At that moment, I wasn't performing any operations in SiYuan.

SiYuan Access iCloud

Once I granted permission, iCloud Drive began downloading a significant amount of data from iCloud (over 7GB) since most of my files are not stored offline. This downloading caused a lot of internet traffic, so I had to quit the SiYuan app. Once I exited, the download process stopped.

I find this quite strange, as all my workspaces are stored on my local drive, and I don’t have any referenced media on iCloud Drive. I'm unsure why SiYuan would need to access iCloud files at all.

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    • 88250

      Hello, SiYuan will traverse the $home/LibraryMobile Documents/ folder to check if there is a workspace in the folder. If it exists, it will prompt the user not to put the workspace in the iCloud path. Perhaps this traversal causes the request for macOS to access iCloud.

      If you have confirmed that the workspace is not placed in the iCloud path, please reject this request. Thanks for the feedback.