iDisk is afile hosting service offered byApple Inc. initially to allMac OS 9 users, and later to.Mac andMobileMe subscribers that enabled them to store their digital photos, films and personal files online so they could be accessed remotely. All Mac OS 9 users received a free 20MB iDisk,[1] with a 400MB paid subscription option added shortly after the iDisk launch.[2] With a standard .Mac subscription, users received a 10GB iDisk. With MobileMe, the standard storage was increased to 20GB.
iDisk integrated withMac OS X, appearing as a networkdrive.Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) through10.6 (Snow Leopard) could cache updates to an iDisk volume while off-line and synchronize updates later. AnyWebDAV client could also access an iDisk volume.
Apple discontinued iDisk, along with many MobileMe (formerly .Mac and iTools) products in 2012. iDisk users could sign up for theiCloud beta or download their files.
The "Public", "Sites" and "Web" folders were the only ones which could be accessed by people other than the iDisk owner, but the "Public" folder could be made password protected via the MobileMePreference Pane inMac OS X.
Included with iDisk in theMobileMe bundle wasBackup, a software utility that allowed users toback up local files to an iDisk. The software was also used to restore files from the iDisk, or any other drive/location selected in the backup app.