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Blundering around in the iCloud (!)
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1838162" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>The scary warning probably came when/if you turned on iCloud Document and Desktop sharing, then tried to turn it off. Turning it on MOVED your documents to the iCloud, removing them from your Mac, but making them available to the Mac and all of your devices over the net. Turn OFF that function does NOT move them back to your Mac, just deletes them and they end up gone. I suspect that is because once they are on iCloud, Apple doesn't know where to send them back to if you stop that service (Mac, iPad, iPhone?). So the trick is to first get them selected, then copy them all to some other location on your Mac that is NOT your Documents or Desktop. Once you have them all, you can turn off iCloud sharing, then move the documents on your Mac from where you put them to where you really want them in Documents and Desktop.</p><p></p><p>I can't say what the various little cloud icons mean, I don't use the iCloud for sharing that way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1838162, member: 396914"] The scary warning probably came when/if you turned on iCloud Document and Desktop sharing, then tried to turn it off. Turning it on MOVED your documents to the iCloud, removing them from your Mac, but making them available to the Mac and all of your devices over the net. Turn OFF that function does NOT move them back to your Mac, just deletes them and they end up gone. I suspect that is because once they are on iCloud, Apple doesn't know where to send them back to if you stop that service (Mac, iPad, iPhone?). So the trick is to first get them selected, then copy them all to some other location on your Mac that is NOT your Documents or Desktop. Once you have them all, you can turn off iCloud sharing, then move the documents on your Mac from where you put them to where you really want them in Documents and Desktop. I can't say what the various little cloud icons mean, I don't use the iCloud for sharing that way. [/QUOTE]
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