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<blockquote data-quote="Rod" data-source="post: 1951956" data-attributes="member: 204485"><p><strong>Lots</strong> of people have accidentally or deliberately turned "Store Documents and Desktop folders in iCloud Drive" because it was accidental or they simply did not fully understand what it would mean in real terms or, they believed that they could just turn it off and everything would return to how it was. Not an entirely unreasonable expectation but unfortunately not true. Just do a search on this website for 'Store Documents and Desktop folders in iCloud Drive" and you will find lots of references so, you're not alone.</p><p></p><p>"I carefully went through [apple-icon]/System Settings and Finder/System Settings. So I can't find it and I don't know if it's on or off."</p><p></p><p>Here is the path; </p><p>As ferrarr posted; System Settings -> General -> Storage. <strong>Then </strong>click "Store in iCloud" </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]40442[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>That will take you to the above window. This is confusing because at first glance it appears that Desktop and Documents plus Photos is <em>already</em> turned on. <strong>It's not! It would only be ON if I clicked the "Store in iCloud" button. </strong>The seperate buttons are there just to allow you to make a choice between Desktop and Documents or Photos or both options. Let me stress that until I click "Store in iCloud" nothing is on. So just click "Cancel" and nothing is changed.</p><p></p><p>You can click on the Question Mark if you want more details.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rod, post: 1951956, member: 204485"] [B]Lots[/B] of people have accidentally or deliberately turned "Store Documents and Desktop folders in iCloud Drive" because it was accidental or they simply did not fully understand what it would mean in real terms or, they believed that they could just turn it off and everything would return to how it was. Not an entirely unreasonable expectation but unfortunately not true. Just do a search on this website for 'Store Documents and Desktop folders in iCloud Drive" and you will find lots of references so, you're not alone. "I carefully went through [apple-icon]/System Settings and Finder/System Settings. So I can't find it and I don't know if it's on or off." Here is the path; As ferrarr posted; System Settings -> General -> Storage. [B]Then [/B]click "Store in iCloud" [ATTACH type="full"]40442[/ATTACH] That will take you to the above window. This is confusing because at first glance it appears that Desktop and Documents plus Photos is [I]already[/I] turned on. [B]It's not! It would only be ON if I clicked the "Store in iCloud" button. [/B]The seperate buttons are there just to allow you to make a choice between Desktop and Documents or Photos or both options. Let me stress that until I click "Store in iCloud" nothing is on. So just click "Cancel" and nothing is changed. You can click on the Question Mark if you want more details. [/QUOTE]
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