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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1923317" data-attributes="member: 396914">iCloud drive is for sharing documents with all of your devices logged into the same iCloud account. <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206985" target="_blank">Add your Desktop and Documents files to iCloud Drive</a> Things you move to iCloud should not &quot;disappear&quot; from the Mac. How do you know they are disappearing? Do you have iCloud drive turned on? I don't have High Sierra, but there was a setting in System Preferences, as I recall, to turn on iCloud Drive. Read the article I linked above. I would recommend against turning on Desktop &amp; Documents Folder in iCloud Drive and also recommend against &quot;Optimize Mac Storage&quot; because both of those move documents to the cloud and leave just links to them on the Mac. That's fine, IF you have a high speed internet connection that never fails. If you don't, then when those documents on the Desktop and Documents folder need to be opened, if you have slow Internet, will take forever to download, and if the Internet is not available, will not be available to you at all.iCloud is not intended for sharing links by email. It's YOUR data. If you want to share, use a third party cloud solution like DropBox.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1923317, member: 396914"] iCloud drive is for sharing documents with all of your devices logged into the same iCloud account. [URL="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206985"]Add your Desktop and Documents files to iCloud Drive[/URL] Things you move to iCloud should not "disappear" from the Mac. How do you know they are disappearing? Do you have iCloud drive turned on? I don't have High Sierra, but there was a setting in System Preferences, as I recall, to turn on iCloud Drive. Read the article I linked above. I would recommend against turning on Desktop & Documents Folder in iCloud Drive and also recommend against "Optimize Mac Storage" because both of those move documents to the cloud and leave just links to them on the Mac. That's fine, IF you have a high speed internet connection that never fails. If you don't, then when those documents on the Desktop and Documents folder need to be opened, if you have slow Internet, will take forever to download, and if the Internet is not available, will not be available to you at all. iCloud is not intended for sharing links by email. It's YOUR data. If you want to share, use a third party cloud solution like DropBox. [/QUOTE]

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