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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1902689" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>From those images, your Desktop and Documents folders (and everything in them) are stored in iCloud. All that you have on the Mac are links to where those things are in iCloud. If that is not what you want, you cannot just uncheck the boxes because that won't necessarily get them back. It should, but there are lots of reports of that not happening. What I would recommend is that you make sure you are logged into your iCloud account, then create two new folders, one named &quot;New Desktop&quot; and the other &quot;New Documents.&quot; Where they are doesn't matter as long as they are NOT on the Desktop or in Documents. Now copy down all of the documents and folders from iCloud to the respective folders. That could take quite a while, depending on your internet connection. Once you know that you have all of them on the Mac, you can untick the Desktop &amp; Documents Folders under iCloud Drive and untick &quot;Optimise Mac Storage.&quot; At that point, theoretically, those documents in those two folders may start to download to your Mac. If so, good. If not, you can now copy everything from &quot;New Desktop&quot; to &quot;Desktop&quot; and from &quot;New Documents&quot; to &quot;Documents&quot; and erase New Desktop and New Documents. If they do download over the internet, when it is done and you are sure you have everything, you can delete New Desktop and New Documents.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1902689, member: 396914"] From those images, your Desktop and Documents folders (and everything in them) are stored in iCloud. All that you have on the Mac are links to where those things are in iCloud. If that is not what you want, you cannot just uncheck the boxes because that won't necessarily get them back. It should, but there are lots of reports of that not happening. What I would recommend is that you make sure you are logged into your iCloud account, then create two new folders, one named "New Desktop" and the other "New Documents." Where they are doesn't matter as long as they are NOT on the Desktop or in Documents. Now copy down all of the documents and folders from iCloud to the respective folders. That could take quite a while, depending on your internet connection. Once you know that you have all of them on the Mac, you can untick the Desktop & Documents Folders under iCloud Drive and untick "Optimise Mac Storage." At that point, theoretically, those documents in those two folders may start to download to your Mac. If so, good. If not, you can now copy everything from "New Desktop" to "Desktop" and from "New Documents" to "Documents" and erase New Desktop and New Documents. If they do download over the internet, when it is done and you are sure you have everything, you can delete New Desktop and New Documents. [/QUOTE]

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