> Spreadsheets lost from iCloud Drive
I edit Numbers spreadsheets on my iPad, and share them on my iPhone and MacBook using iCloud. I’m now finding that some of them work fine on my iPad, but I can’t find them on other devices. What’s gone wrong, and how do I fix it?
If you can still load them on your iPad, that shows they’re being saved correctly, but to the wrong location. Tracking them down and moving them to iCloud should solve the problem. The first place to look is local storage on your iPad. Open Numbers and, at the top left, tap the word Numbers to open the sidebar with Locations and Tags. If the selected location is On My iPad, tap that to see a list of local folders in which the app can save its files. Tap the Numbers folder and see if your missing files are there. If you can’t find them, use the Search bar at the top. Enter the name of one of the files and that should reveal every copy of that document and its current location.
To move a document from local storage to iCloud, tap Select at the top right, select the document, and tap Move at the foot. Then select the folder (normally Numbers in your iCloud Drive) as its destination.
Once you’ve moved those files into the right place in iCloud, you can prevent files being saved to local storage back in the sidebar. Tap the “…” button at the top, and Edit Sidebar. Disable the On My iPad item, leaving just iCloud Drive as the location for further spreadsheets to be saved.