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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1866558" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>[USER=193327]@Marrk[/USER], it depends on what you have previously put in iCloud what that exactly means. If you shared Desktop and Documents and don't copy what is shown there to some other place that is NOT on the desktop and is NOT in Documents, then when you sign out of iCloud the system is disconnect you from the Desktop and Document files that are in the cloud and then create new, empty Desktop and Document folder for you. If you do copy them off to a safe location, that's ok, because you can then copy the items back to these new, empty folders and get your system back to what it was. If you didn't turn that on in the first place, then what will happen is that your Mac will now no longer sync with any other devices that share data in the cloud, so contacts, calendars, mail, keychain, etc, will not match on your iDevices and the Mac. Similarly, Messages on the Mac will no longer work because it requires iCloud.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1866558, member: 396914"] [USER=193327]@Marrk[/USER], it depends on what you have previously put in iCloud what that exactly means. If you shared Desktop and Documents and don't copy what is shown there to some other place that is NOT on the desktop and is NOT in Documents, then when you sign out of iCloud the system is disconnect you from the Desktop and Document files that are in the cloud and then create new, empty Desktop and Document folder for you. If you do copy them off to a safe location, that's ok, because you can then copy the items back to these new, empty folders and get your system back to what it was. If you didn't turn that on in the first place, then what will happen is that your Mac will now no longer sync with any other devices that share data in the cloud, so contacts, calendars, mail, keychain, etc, will not match on your iDevices and the Mac. Similarly, Messages on the Mac will no longer work because it requires iCloud. [/QUOTE]

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