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<blockquote data-quote="IgorP" data-source="post: 1951938" data-attributes="member: 367941"><p>My only device other than this computer is an iPhone. I do not want or use any passwords on my phone. </p><p></p><p>I have Find My Mac/Phone turned on; I didn't know it needed iCloud. </p><p></p><p>I do not use email or Safari on my phone. I do not use Notes, Calendars, Reminder or Wallet.</p><p></p><p>I am not the kind of active user that you guys are. I <em>was</em>, but no longer <em>am</em>. I'm a long-retired Silicon Valley electronics engineer. I live in Cupertino and shop, drive or walk by the spaceship every day. In the 90's our shop was all Mac. My colleagues and I were on top of absolutely everything Mac. In the 00's we got bought out and switched to PC's, much to our dismay, and my Mac awareness began to wane. Since I retired it has ceased, because I am no longer in touch with knowledgeable people. Trust me, it will happen to you too, when you are no longer surrounded by helpful colleagues. It's hard to keep up when you're isolated.</p><p></p><p>Now when I scroll around my phone I realize I have no idea what most of it is, I'm that far behind. (Services? Smart/Burn Folders? No idea, but pretty sure I can live without them.) That doesn't mean I'm dead yet. I'm fluent in Python and have done 70+ Euler Project problems. My Photoshop skills are advanced and I've sold/published dozens of wildlife shots in field guides and magazines. </p><p></p><p>The photos on my phone that I might want to share are not my professional-grade wildlife photos. Those amount to several hundred gigs and are double backed up separately. The gig or so photos in the Photos app and on my phone are just family snapshots -- nothing that's going to go over 5 gigs.</p><p></p><p>My concern iCloud began when I tried to copy and send jpegs and tiffs and found that I was copying and sending tokens or aliases instead of real files. I said "I don't need this, this was a mistake, let me out of here." Now I can't get out.</p><p></p><p>I tried dragging files out of the iCloud folder onto my desktop but that was a disaster. It left a token in the folder and when I deleted that, the file, or maybe it was just a token, disappeared from my desktop. Also the amount of storage increased, so I had to stop that and admit I needed serious help, thus my appeal here.</p><p></p><p>I could scrub this computer and rebuild it from scratch (I'm that well backed up) but I'm afraid the problems would persist.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IgorP, post: 1951938, member: 367941"] My only device other than this computer is an iPhone. I do not want or use any passwords on my phone. I have Find My Mac/Phone turned on; I didn't know it needed iCloud. I do not use email or Safari on my phone. I do not use Notes, Calendars, Reminder or Wallet. I am not the kind of active user that you guys are. I [I]was[/I], but no longer [I]am[/I]. I'm a long-retired Silicon Valley electronics engineer. I live in Cupertino and shop, drive or walk by the spaceship every day. In the 90's our shop was all Mac. My colleagues and I were on top of absolutely everything Mac. In the 00's we got bought out and switched to PC's, much to our dismay, and my Mac awareness began to wane. Since I retired it has ceased, because I am no longer in touch with knowledgeable people. Trust me, it will happen to you too, when you are no longer surrounded by helpful colleagues. It's hard to keep up when you're isolated. Now when I scroll around my phone I realize I have no idea what most of it is, I'm that far behind. (Services? Smart/Burn Folders? No idea, but pretty sure I can live without them.) That doesn't mean I'm dead yet. I'm fluent in Python and have done 70+ Euler Project problems. My Photoshop skills are advanced and I've sold/published dozens of wildlife shots in field guides and magazines. The photos on my phone that I might want to share are not my professional-grade wildlife photos. Those amount to several hundred gigs and are double backed up separately. The gig or so photos in the Photos app and on my phone are just family snapshots -- nothing that's going to go over 5 gigs. My concern iCloud began when I tried to copy and send jpegs and tiffs and found that I was copying and sending tokens or aliases instead of real files. I said "I don't need this, this was a mistake, let me out of here." Now I can't get out. I tried dragging files out of the iCloud folder onto my desktop but that was a disaster. It left a token in the folder and when I deleted that, the file, or maybe it was just a token, disappeared from my desktop. Also the amount of storage increased, so I had to stop that and admit I needed serious help, thus my appeal here. I could scrub this computer and rebuild it from scratch (I'm that well backed up) but I'm afraid the problems would persist. [/QUOTE]
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