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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1849370" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>*sigh* That is limited to the machine-specific subfolders if you are using the iCloud Drive “Desktop and Documents” option. The subfolders. The ones inside the master “Desktop” and master “Documents” folders at the root level of iCloud Drive. I am no longer using that option on any Mac and there are no machine-specific subfolders on iCloud Drive. They don’t exist. I turned it off loooooong ago and copied all the contents back to their proper places on the associated Macs. If I currently drop a file in the “master” Documents folder in iCloud Drive, that file will auto sync to all Macs, DropBox-style. I previously assumed that wouldn’t happen, but I was wrong. Same if I drop one at the root level of iCloud Drive... the new file will propagate to all Macs. Not a placeholder, the full file. Despite that, I have some files spread around in iCloud Drive that are not synced across my Macs. It’s completely random. Synced and unsynced files reside in the same folders, even at root level. This doesn’t make sense. It’s chaos.</p><p></p><p>If I want to use iCloud like an ftp server so they reside only on iCloud, there should be a proper, INTUITIVE way to do it. Not by enabling a feature that I don’t otherwise want to use.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1849370, member: 38864"] *sigh* That is limited to the machine-specific subfolders if you are using the iCloud Drive “Desktop and Documents” option. The subfolders. The ones inside the master “Desktop” and master “Documents” folders at the root level of iCloud Drive. I am no longer using that option on any Mac and there are no machine-specific subfolders on iCloud Drive. They don’t exist. I turned it off loooooong ago and copied all the contents back to their proper places on the associated Macs. If I currently drop a file in the “master” Documents folder in iCloud Drive, that file will auto sync to all Macs, DropBox-style. I previously assumed that wouldn’t happen, but I was wrong. Same if I drop one at the root level of iCloud Drive... the new file will propagate to all Macs. Not a placeholder, the full file. Despite that, I have some files spread around in iCloud Drive that are not synced across my Macs. It’s completely random. Synced and unsynced files reside in the same folders, even at root level. This doesn’t make sense. It’s chaos. If I want to use iCloud like an ftp server so they reside only on iCloud, there should be a proper, INTUITIVE way to do it. Not by enabling a feature that I don’t otherwise want to use. [/QUOTE]
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