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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1849368" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Not actually, but I won't go through that again.</p><p>Those both can be done. First, to make the system work like an FTP server, where some files are in the cloud and not on your local system, turn on the Desktop and Documents function under iCloud in System Preferences. Now all the files and folders in those two folders will be kept on the cloud server and only brought to your local system when you want them. Kind of like an FTP server, but with automatic up and down loads. What is put on iCloud Drive (which is separate from the other iCloud service) should be synced across any device using iCloud Drive. Any file/folder you want kept locally would need to be kept in a different folder at ~/ level. You could name that folder "unsynced" or "local" or anything other than Documents or Desktop. iCloud Drive will still work as advertised, syncing across all devices, but you may want to try moving the iCloud Drive folder from Desktop or Documents to the ~/ level as well, just to make sure that the Documents/Desktop process does not muck with the files on iCloud Drive.</p><p></p><p>Another approach is to turn off the Documents and Desktop option, but first copy all of the files and folders to a different temporary location because when you turn it off the files/folders in the Documents and Desktop folders for that machine in the cloud are lost and the process will create new Desktop and Documents folders for you in ~/. (The turn off process is supposed to offer the opportunity to "archive" the files into the new folders being created on your local drive, but I would do it manually, just to make sure.) Once you have the option turned off, copy the files and folders from where you put them (or from the Archive folders the process may have created) back to the new Documents and Desktop folders that got created on the local drive. Now none of the files or folders in Documents or Desktops will be synced to the cloud, except for what is in the iCloud Drive folder. Put into the iCloud drive folder files you want on the local Mac as well as in the cloud and on any other system that has iCloud Drive enabled. It works just like Dropbox at that point. And even if the iCloud Drive is on the Desktop, or in Documents, that one folder will be synced by the iCloud Drive process. But none of the others in Desktop or Documents. That end state is not exactly like an FTP server, but more like Dropbox or similar sync services. The beauty of this second solution is that there are no aliases being created and no file should be "toasted" in this setup. Only files you put into the iCloud Drive folder will be synced to the cloud.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1849368, member: 396914"] Not actually, but I won't go through that again. Those both can be done. First, to make the system work like an FTP server, where some files are in the cloud and not on your local system, turn on the Desktop and Documents function under iCloud in System Preferences. Now all the files and folders in those two folders will be kept on the cloud server and only brought to your local system when you want them. Kind of like an FTP server, but with automatic up and down loads. What is put on iCloud Drive (which is separate from the other iCloud service) should be synced across any device using iCloud Drive. Any file/folder you want kept locally would need to be kept in a different folder at ~/ level. You could name that folder "unsynced" or "local" or anything other than Documents or Desktop. iCloud Drive will still work as advertised, syncing across all devices, but you may want to try moving the iCloud Drive folder from Desktop or Documents to the ~/ level as well, just to make sure that the Documents/Desktop process does not muck with the files on iCloud Drive. Another approach is to turn off the Documents and Desktop option, but first copy all of the files and folders to a different temporary location because when you turn it off the files/folders in the Documents and Desktop folders for that machine in the cloud are lost and the process will create new Desktop and Documents folders for you in ~/. (The turn off process is supposed to offer the opportunity to "archive" the files into the new folders being created on your local drive, but I would do it manually, just to make sure.) Once you have the option turned off, copy the files and folders from where you put them (or from the Archive folders the process may have created) back to the new Documents and Desktop folders that got created on the local drive. Now none of the files or folders in Documents or Desktops will be synced to the cloud, except for what is in the iCloud Drive folder. Put into the iCloud drive folder files you want on the local Mac as well as in the cloud and on any other system that has iCloud Drive enabled. It works just like Dropbox at that point. And even if the iCloud Drive is on the Desktop, or in Documents, that one folder will be synced by the iCloud Drive process. But none of the others in Desktop or Documents. That end state is not exactly like an FTP server, but more like Dropbox or similar sync services. The beauty of this second solution is that there are no aliases being created and no file should be "toasted" in this setup. Only files you put into the iCloud Drive folder will be synced to the cloud. [/QUOTE]
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