iWork document aliases in Open dialogue window

[Kartoffeln]

In Catalina's open dialogue boxes for Pages/Numbers/Keynote, when I click the respective app's iCloud directory from the left sidebar, I no longer see a list of document aliases that I have opened with the respective app previously. I now only see the actual files stored in that given app directory/sandbox. Is this an expected change?

 

[Kartoffeln]

Let me try to explain more thoroughly...

Before Catalina, I would to open a Pages document in macOS, and then save it to Documents or some other directory. The next time I did File-->Open, I would see an alias of that document in the iCloud-->Pages directory (sandbox?) in addition to the actual file being visible in the Documents directory.

This no longer appears to be the case in Catalina. Is this expected?

 

[Kartoffeln]

In other words, the Pages, Numbers, and Keynotes "sandbox" folders are empty unless I save a file directly in them. They used to be filled with aliases that pointed to their respective files in other folders.

 

[Ritsuka]

Apps folder are no longer needed. You can save the files wherever you want on iOS too.
I never saw alias in the apps folders, I don't know.

 

[Kartoffeln]

Agreed they're no longer needed. I saw aliases in those folders until Catalina. Just wanted to confirm.

 

[Kartoffeln]

The "aliased" documents still exist in the iOS sandboxes for apps like Numbers, Pages, TextEdit, etc, so wondering why they don't exist in macOS