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Blundering around in the iCloud (!)
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1838830" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Mikeo1938, according to this article from Apple: <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206985" target="_blank">Add your Desktop and Documents files to iCloud Drive - Apple Support</a></p><p></p><p>the files are MOVED to iCloud, not copied. And in the section on how to turn off the cloud, in the same article, it says: Reading between the lines, if you sign out of iCloud a NEW Documents folder is created and you can download the Archived documents to copy them to the new folder. That statement implies very strongly that if you do NOT follow the steps, you don't get access to the documents in the Cloud.</p><p></p><p>And that's the way it has been described as happening to a couple of folks who turned it on, let it run and then turned it off: "Hey, where did my documents go?"</p><p></p><p>EDIT: One more thing. Apple "sells" this function as storage saving for the user. The only way to "save" storage is to not have something there that used to be there. So it would seem that the files are, in fact, not on your local drive. In that same article I referenced above, it says:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1838830, member: 396914"] Mikeo1938, according to this article from Apple: [url=https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206985]Add your Desktop and Documents files to iCloud Drive - Apple Support[/url] the files are MOVED to iCloud, not copied. And in the section on how to turn off the cloud, in the same article, it says: Reading between the lines, if you sign out of iCloud a NEW Documents folder is created and you can download the Archived documents to copy them to the new folder. That statement implies very strongly that if you do NOT follow the steps, you don't get access to the documents in the Cloud. And that's the way it has been described as happening to a couple of folks who turned it on, let it run and then turned it off: "Hey, where did my documents go?" EDIT: One more thing. Apple "sells" this function as storage saving for the user. The only way to "save" storage is to not have something there that used to be there. So it would seem that the files are, in fact, not on your local drive. In that same article I referenced above, it says: [/QUOTE]
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