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<blockquote data-quote="PGB1" data-source="post: 1951375" data-attributes="member: 76746">Hi All,I am 100% new to iCloud, so please pardon my ignorance. I've studied here and every Apple article I can find, but I'm still confused.When I turn on iCloud Drive in Settings, the desktop, documents and photos disappear from Finder. If the computer is offline (internet goes down often), I can't access these documents. I turned iCloud Drive off and the folders reappeared in Finder and are available when the internet is on strike. I'm not interested in syncing to the cloud because I don't use a phone or iPad to work on documents. What I would like to do is to put some documents, some photos, the Contacts list and Calendar on iCloud so I can log in on my not-Apple phone via a web browser and view a document, a photo, the Contacts list and Calendar. Is there a way to store such things on iCloud Drive, but leave them available on the computer's physical drive for when the internet is broken? I assume that they won't sync automatically. Is there a way to sync manually and still leave them on the computer's drive? (For example, if I make changes to a Pages document or add some photos to my computer, make them show up in iCloud Drive- but still leave them available on the local hard drive?Thanks for helping my brain understand this!Paul</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PGB1, post: 1951375, member: 76746"] Hi All, I am 100% new to iCloud, so please pardon my ignorance. I've studied here and every Apple article I can find, but I'm still confused. When I turn on iCloud Drive in Settings, the desktop, documents and photos disappear from Finder. If the computer is offline (internet goes down often), I can't access these documents. I turned iCloud Drive off and the folders reappeared in Finder and are available when the internet is on strike. I'm not interested in syncing to the cloud because I don't use a phone or iPad to work on documents. What I would like to do is to put some documents, some photos, the Contacts list and Calendar on iCloud so I can log in on my not-Apple phone via a web browser and view a document, a photo, the Contacts list and Calendar. Is there a way to store such things on iCloud Drive, but leave them available on the computer's physical drive for when the internet is broken? I assume that they won't sync automatically. Is there a way to sync manually and still leave them on the computer's drive? (For example, if I make changes to a Pages document or add some photos to my computer, make them show up in iCloud Drive- but still leave them available on the local hard drive? Thanks for helping my brain understand this! Paul [/QUOTE]

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