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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1942892" data-attributes="member: 396914">The catch is that wth &quot;Optimize&quot; checked, the system does stuff in the background, without any further import. It &quot;evicts&quot; (Apple's word) files from your internal drive in the Documents and Desktop folders to the cloud, leaving behind what are called &quot;data-less&quot; files. Basically, just names with no data stored at all. When you open one of these data-less files, it gets downloaded. The system decides what and when to evict files to the cloud. It's all hidden to you. So, when you turn it off, it has to return all of the data to the data-less files, but it doesn't do that directly, it downloads them into new, different folders so that you can, and have to, decide where to put them on the internal again. I don't know Apex Pro, I don't know what it does, and the only thing I found with a quick search was a keyboard of some type, but it seems to me that you should be able to point it to any drive as the destination for backups. What do owners who don't have iCloud Drive do? The fact that it may default to iCloud Drive, or that you have set it up that way doesn't mean it cannot be changed. Nevertheless, iCloud Drive and &quot;Optimize&quot; are two individual things, so you can have one and not the other.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1942892, member: 396914"] The catch is that wth "Optimize" checked, the system does stuff in the background, without any further import. It "evicts" (Apple's word) files from your internal drive in the Documents and Desktop folders to the cloud, leaving behind what are called "data-less" files. Basically, just names with no data stored at all. When you open one of these data-less files, it gets downloaded. The system decides what and when to evict files to the cloud. It's all hidden to you. So, when you turn it off, it has to return all of the data to the data-less files, but it doesn't do that directly, it downloads them into new, different folders so that you can, and have to, decide where to put them on the internal again. I don't know Apex Pro, I don't know what it does, and the only thing I found with a quick search was a keyboard of some type, but it seems to me that you should be able to point it to any drive as the destination for backups. What do owners who don't have iCloud Drive do? The fact that it may default to iCloud Drive, or that you have set it up that way doesn't mean it cannot be changed. Nevertheless, iCloud Drive and "Optimize" are two individual things, so you can have one and not the other. [/QUOTE]

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