


My next interation I will determine which files iCloud 5 and then 5.1 actually require from the Windows Media Player install (since it's just enabled / diabled, it must be stock files) - if it merely fails because it doesn't detect the files at all, but we don't care about that aspect (playback of media as there is no iTunes on Windows) I suppose Step #1 will be trick it with fake executables to get it going and then Step #2 - Create a Win32/64 thunk layterġ.) I Installed the latest version of iTunes AvailableĢ.) I enabled Windows Media Player feature (without debug tracing, file monitoring, etc - Step #2)ģ.) I downloaded and installed iCloud v5.1 (I think) and ran setup. Local Folder Access: I mapped c:\local\archive\\ to C:\Users\Documents\My Photos\iCloud Photos with full read and write support.Ģ.) Took a clean snapshot of the VM Image to use as a "NEXT INTERATION TESTING", no I won't leave everyone cold without a file based solution (may require installing various bits from archive, SFC, etc - I will keep this legal only, may even need a DONER Install Disk or i386 directory to expand the.

Physical Disk Size: 8GB Virtual Disk Size 128GB (Way too big but then it worked) I basically created a Virtual Box VM using the official microsoft IE Test Virtual Disk Images (Available from WinXP to Win10 with Edge) and run quite well in Oracle Virtual Box on my modest Lenovo S11 Yoga 2.5 (I call it a 2.5 because it's not quite a 2 nor an 11S, it's like they refurbed it but forgot to put a serial number in the BIOS which leads me to determine verison based on HW) which is as I can tell a Haswell Chipset with a 2.5 Core i5 Dual Core, Quad Thread atop 12GB of RAM and a 480GB SSD Drive internally. I've succeeded in acheiving my initial GOAL - fetching 15.7 GB (2012-2015) archives in the cloud for a client, all in full resolution, etc.
