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<blockquote data-quote="IgorP" data-source="post: 1951952" data-attributes="member: 367941">I really appreciate your advice. I did as Jake suggested: I logged in at iCloud.com/Browse and deleted everything. This did nothing to change the 119.9 GB used, but I figured that was because it was now in &quot;Recently Deleted.&quot; So I went there and &quot;deleted forever&quot; all but two folders: Documents and Desktop. The rest instantly disappeared and the number of &quot;items&quot; in that folder reduced correspondingly to two. The 119.9 GB still shows as used.I now have two questions:1) The two folders remaining in &quot;Recently Deleted&quot; are Desktop and Documents. I do not need either of these since I have completely restored both on my computer. My question is how and why did my desktop get copied to iCloud? Under Settings/iCloud/See All I see no option to copy or sync the desktop. Curiously, I can drag the Desktop folder back to Browse, but not the Documents folder. Late note: after moving the Desktop folder back and forth I was able to delete it forever, so there's one small item, Documents, left in Recently Deleted, nothing in Browse, and 119.9 GB still used.2) Do I need to do anything else to get the &quot;storage used&quot; to update; eg, turn iCloud back on on my machine, keep waiting, or...? I'm cautious about turning iCloud back on because it might try to grab my desktop files and leave tokens as it did before. How do I prevent that? I will want to turn it back on once I get the usage under five gigs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="IgorP, post: 1951952, member: 367941"] I really appreciate your advice. I did as Jake suggested: I logged in at iCloud.com/Browse and deleted everything. This did nothing to change the 119.9 GB used, but I figured that was because it was now in "Recently Deleted." So I went there and "deleted forever" all but two folders: Documents and Desktop. The rest instantly disappeared and the number of "items" in that folder reduced correspondingly to two. The 119.9 GB still shows as used. I now have two questions: 1) The two folders remaining in "Recently Deleted" are Desktop and Documents. I do not need either of these since I have completely restored both on my computer. My question is how and why did my desktop get copied to iCloud? Under Settings/iCloud/See All I see no option to copy or sync the desktop. Curiously, I can drag the Desktop folder back to Browse, but not the Documents folder. Late note: after moving the Desktop folder back and forth I was able to delete it forever, so there's one small item, Documents, left in Recently Deleted, nothing in Browse, and 119.9 GB still used. 2) Do I need to do anything else to get the "storage used" to update; eg, turn iCloud back on on my machine, keep waiting, or...? I'm cautious about turning iCloud back on because it might try to grab my desktop files and leave tokens as it did before. How do I prevent that? I will want to turn it back on once I get the usage under five gigs. [/QUOTE]

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