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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1849281" data-attributes="member: 38864">Explained here, with a screen cap.<a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206985" target="_blank">Add your Desktop and Documents files to iCloud Drive - Apple Support</a>That sounds like my thinking here. Which is just crazy that it works this way if so. These iCloud Desktop and Documents folders, if intended to be tied to a specific machine, should be CLEARLY labeled as such, even if only enabled on one Mac, and siloed to their own sub-directory by machine id. Not dropped in the root level of iCloud Drive. A folder named “Documents” at that level logically should be a free-for-all.edit: the screen cap from Apple’s page above just gave me an “aha” moment and refreshed my fuzzy memory. So the “Desktop” folder is a special one in the root level of iCloud Drive and has sub-folders that are machine-specific. “Documents” would be the same. So those folders wouldn’t have their entire contents synced across all Macs... just each own’s sub folder would be. Stop using that “Desktop and Documents” feature, and apparently the folder continues to act “special” like it’s waiting for a machine-specific sub-folder.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1849281, member: 38864"] Explained here, with a screen cap. [URL="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206985"]Add your Desktop and Documents files to iCloud Drive - Apple Support[/URL] That sounds like my thinking here. Which is just crazy that it works this way if so. These iCloud Desktop and Documents folders, if intended to be tied to a specific machine, should be CLEARLY labeled as such, even if only enabled on one Mac, and siloed to their own sub-directory by machine id. Not dropped in the root level of iCloud Drive. A folder named “Documents” at that level logically should be a free-for-all. edit: the screen cap from Apple’s page above just gave me an “aha” moment and refreshed my fuzzy memory. So the “Desktop” folder is a special one in the root level of iCloud Drive and has sub-folders that are machine-specific. “Documents” would be the same. So those folders wouldn’t have their entire contents synced across all Macs... just each own’s sub folder would be. Stop using that “Desktop and Documents” feature, and apparently the folder continues to act “special” like it’s waiting for a machine-specific sub-folder. [/QUOTE]

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