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iCloud versus iCloud Drive Confusion
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1951425" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Rod has given excellent directions. However, depending on the speed of your internet connection and how long and how much stuff has been moved to the cloud, you will need to wait between these two steps:</p><p></p><p>When you turn off the Optimize/sync in settings, what happens is that EVERYTHING that was in Documents and on the Desktop is copied back to your internal drive, in those two folders in iCloud Drive. That can take a while to complete, so let that finish before moving on to </p><p></p><p>I can't tell you how to know that the process of downloading is complete as there are no messages or progress bars. You might open Activity Monitor and look at Network to see if a lot of data is being received, but that's about it. Just wait. Maybe even overnight.</p><p></p><p>And make sure your internal drive has sufficient space for all of that stuff, too, or it will fail when the drive gets full. And with a full drive, the Mac will get impossibly slow.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1951425, member: 396914"] Rod has given excellent directions. However, depending on the speed of your internet connection and how long and how much stuff has been moved to the cloud, you will need to wait between these two steps: When you turn off the Optimize/sync in settings, what happens is that EVERYTHING that was in Documents and on the Desktop is copied back to your internal drive, in those two folders in iCloud Drive. That can take a while to complete, so let that finish before moving on to I can't tell you how to know that the process of downloading is complete as there are no messages or progress bars. You might open Activity Monitor and look at Network to see if a lot of data is being received, but that's about it. Just wait. Maybe even overnight. And make sure your internal drive has sufficient space for all of that stuff, too, or it will fail when the drive gets full. And with a full drive, the Mac will get impossibly slow. [/QUOTE]
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