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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1951953" data-attributes="member: 396914">The Documents and Desktop folders get created when you turn on &quot;Optimize storage&quot; on the Mac. That setting is in Settings &gt; Storage and is a box labeled &quot;Optimize..&quot; if you do NOT have it turned on. Clicking the box will open a screen to verify that you want to Optimize video files and which has a &quot;cancel&quot; button to get out of optimization. When a user turns optimization on, the user's Desktop and Documents folders are MOVED to iCloud and dataless folders/files are left in their place on the Mac. Turning Optimization off is not as clean. Turning off immediately deletes the dataless folders and files and creates new Desktop and Documents folder, but leaves them empty. Then the iCloud files are downloaded to Desktop and Document folders created in the iCloud Drive folder on the Mac and getting the files from that location to the new, empty folders is left up to the user. Turning Optimization off also does NOT delete the files held in the cloud if there are any other devices attached to the same AppleID account as Apple does not assume that just because you stopped Optimization you also wanted to clear them off off the other devices attached.As for the storage used, just wait a bit and it should update. You aren't really taking that much space in the real storage as it is heavily compressed. Apple will/should eventually update the data used. I don't know what your last sentence means, sorry. What do you want to turn back on?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1951953, member: 396914"] The Documents and Desktop folders get created when you turn on "Optimize storage" on the Mac. That setting is in Settings > Storage and is a box labeled "Optimize.." if you do NOT have it turned on. Clicking the box will open a screen to verify that you want to Optimize video files and which has a "cancel" button to get out of optimization. When a user turns optimization on, the user's Desktop and Documents folders are MOVED to iCloud and dataless folders/files are left in their place on the Mac. Turning Optimization off is not as clean. Turning off immediately deletes the dataless folders and files and creates new Desktop and Documents folder, but leaves them empty. Then the iCloud files are downloaded to Desktop and Document folders created in the iCloud Drive folder on the Mac and getting the files from that location to the new, empty folders is left up to the user. Turning Optimization off also does NOT delete the files held in the cloud if there are any other devices attached to the same AppleID account as Apple does not assume that just because you stopped Optimization you also wanted to clear them off off the other devices attached. As for the storage used, just wait a bit and it should update. You aren't really taking that much space in the real storage as it is heavily compressed. Apple will/should eventually update the data used. I don't know what your last sentence means, sorry. What do you want to turn back on? [/QUOTE]

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