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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1942883" data-attributes="member: 396914">System Settings&gt;Apple ID&gt;iCloud, look for this:[ATTACH=full]39444[/ATTACH]See where it says &quot;Optimize Mac Storage&quot;? If that is ON, then your Documents and Desktop folders are stored in iCloud.&nbsp; To turn it off, uncheck it, but then be prepared for some strange things to happen. What &quot;should&quot; happen is that the existing Desktop and Documents folders will be eliminated and new ones created that are empty. Then all of the documents stored in iCloud will be downloaded (these are &quot;evicted&quot; files move to make room). As I understand it, these download are NOT put in the new folders, just stored on the drive for you to move to the appropriate folders once it's done. As I said, I've never done this, so I'm going on reports from others. The good news is that once you have them all downloaded, they should be intact, just as they were.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1942883, member: 396914"] System Settings>Apple ID>iCloud, look for this: [ATTACH type="full"]39444[/ATTACH] See where it says "Optimize Mac Storage"? If that is ON, then your Documents and Desktop folders are stored in iCloud. To turn it off, uncheck it, but then be prepared for some strange things to happen. What "should" happen is that the existing Desktop and Documents folders will be eliminated and new ones created that are empty. Then all of the documents stored in iCloud will be downloaded (these are "evicted" files move to make room). As I understand it, these download are NOT put in the new folders, just stored on the drive for you to move to the appropriate folders once it's done. As I said, I've never done this, so I'm going on reports from others. The good news is that once you have them all downloaded, they should be intact, just as they were. [/QUOTE]

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