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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1866606" data-attributes="member: 396914">If you are running Catalina, open System Preferences and click on &quot;Apple ID&quot; beside your account name. If you aren't running Catalina, open System Preferences and select iCloud. The resulting window will show options for what is stored in the iCloud space. Beside the iCloud Drive icon is a box labelled &quot;Options&quot; and if you click there you get a list of what can be stored on iCloud. One of those items is &quot;Desktop &amp; Documents Folders.&quot; If that is checked, what you see on the Desktop and in your Documents folder of your Home folder are actually in iCloud. Don't uncheck it unless you have copied the two folder to someplace that is NOT on the Desktop or in your Documents folder. If you click on the &quot;Done&quot; button it returns to the iCloud setup. Below the window is a checkbox &quot;Optimize Mac Storage&quot; that if selected allows the system to move things to iCloud to make space on your internal drive for you. You don't want to check that box because if you want something that has been moved to iCloud and are not connected to the iCloud, you can't get it.If iCloud Drive is not selected, then your documents are not stored in iCloud unless you specifically did so inside the app as you created the document.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1866606, member: 396914"] If you are running Catalina, open System Preferences and click on "Apple ID" beside your account name. If you aren't running Catalina, open System Preferences and select iCloud. The resulting window will show options for what is stored in the iCloud space. Beside the iCloud Drive icon is a box labelled "Options" and if you click there you get a list of what can be stored on iCloud. One of those items is "Desktop & Documents Folders." If that is checked, what you see on the Desktop and in your Documents folder of your Home folder are actually in iCloud. Don't uncheck it unless you have copied the two folder to someplace that is NOT on the Desktop or in your Documents folder. If you click on the "Done" button it returns to the iCloud setup. Below the window is a checkbox "Optimize Mac Storage" that if selected allows the system to move things to iCloud to make space on your internal drive for you. You don't want to check that box because if you want something that has been moved to iCloud and are not connected to the iCloud, you can't get it. If iCloud Drive is not selected, then your documents are not stored in iCloud unless you specifically did so inside the app as you created the document. [/QUOTE]

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