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Blundering around in the iCloud (!)
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1838493" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>At this point you are probably better off letting it run to completion. Aborting it may leave you in a state where some are in one place and others are in the other. Letting it finish should guarantee that they are all in the Cloud (assuming you have the space there). Once done, you can then copy them all from Documents and Desktop to some other place (maybe external drive? Maybe just a different folder on your Mac, if you have the storage for it, outside the Documents folder?) and once you have them all downloaded again you can then stop the storage process, in which case they will disappear from your Documents folder. Once done, you can copy them all back to the documents folder from where you put them temporarily. </p><p></p><p>Sorry about all the work, but once you start the iCloud storage, you pretty much get committed to it. I don't know of any way to abort, safely. Maybe a guru will come along and have a magic touch for you.</p><p></p><p>This whole sequence is one of the reasons most of us here recommend against the iCloud storage of Documents and Desktop.</p><p></p><p>Here is an article from Apple about it. Note the last section on how to undo storage in the cloud: <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206985" target="_blank">Add your Desktop and Documents files to iCloud Drive - Apple Support</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1838493, member: 396914"] At this point you are probably better off letting it run to completion. Aborting it may leave you in a state where some are in one place and others are in the other. Letting it finish should guarantee that they are all in the Cloud (assuming you have the space there). Once done, you can then copy them all from Documents and Desktop to some other place (maybe external drive? Maybe just a different folder on your Mac, if you have the storage for it, outside the Documents folder?) and once you have them all downloaded again you can then stop the storage process, in which case they will disappear from your Documents folder. Once done, you can copy them all back to the documents folder from where you put them temporarily. Sorry about all the work, but once you start the iCloud storage, you pretty much get committed to it. I don't know of any way to abort, safely. Maybe a guru will come along and have a magic touch for you. This whole sequence is one of the reasons most of us here recommend against the iCloud storage of Documents and Desktop. Here is an article from Apple about it. Note the last section on how to undo storage in the cloud: [url=https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206985]Add your Desktop and Documents files to iCloud Drive - Apple Support[/url] [/QUOTE]
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