‘Access All Your iCloud Files From the Finder Sidebar’

[Since I posted this tip](https://brooksreview.net/2012/08/icloud/), and it has worked its way through the paywall, I have been getting a lot of tips from readers about how to go about adding this folder to the Finder sidebar. The tip I am linking to is one tip I only heard about yesterday, but the tip didn’t work…

[Since I posted this tip](https://brooksreview.net/2012/08/icloud/), and it has worked its way through the paywall, I have been getting a lot of tips from readers about how to go about adding this folder to the Finder sidebar. The tip I am linking to is one tip I only heard about yesterday, but the tip didn’t work for me.

Besides it not working for me, the tip really is a messy hack.

More readers emailed in with a slightly less complicated solution: create an alias to the Mobile Documents folder and add that alias to the sidebar in Finder. That’s pretty good, but I can do you one better.

Reader Matt H. wrote in with a screenshot of his computer showing the most dumb-foundingly easy solution. Here’s what you do:

1. [Navigate to the Mobile Documents folder](https://brooksreview.net/2012/08/icloud/) (aka iCloud).
2. Go to the `File` menu and select the command `Add to Sidebar`.

You are done. I don’t know why this works and dragging in the folder doesn’t, but I am sure glad it works. Thanks Matt H.

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