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Sorry, it seems my comment was misleading. There is no integration with sync apps.

My app is a Mac app, so it just reads/writes JSON files to disk in a folder that the user selects. The user selects a folder in iCloud drive, Dropbox, etc.

There is nothing special about my code, except that it is written with the expectation that some service modifies the files on disk in the background. Every JSON file has a uuid, so I can track renames of the files. But for the most part it's just a lot of handwritten code that converts JSON into objects and vice versa.

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