Q: How do I force new notes to use iCloud instead of "On My Mac"?
I'm synching notes between my Macbook Pro and my iPhone but it's driving me a little crazy. When using my macbook, on "All Notes", if I create a new note, it goes into "On My Mac" instead of the iCloud folder. I'm assuming this mean it will never synch with my phone, so I have to manually drag each note to iCloud after I write it. Is anyone else experiencing this problem, or is it normal?
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)
Posted on Feb 18, 2015 10:27 PM
Just so you will know. I went ahead and tested it and it worked fine.
I removed all notes from the On My Mac section. Deleted all folders from On My Mac except Notes (would not let me delete it). Signed out of iCloud and removed all information from the computer. When I signed back in, I unchecked all boxes that first came up. Then selected individually each item to enable in iCloud. I did not get the Pop Up to merge information when I enabled Notes (probably because I had none to merge), but notes now only has only the iCloud account on it.
FYI: In order to get the On My Mac back showing in the list, you would once again have to sign out of iCloud, create a local note, then sign back in without merging information. Then the On My Mac account will stay.
Posted on Apr 22, 2015 4:50 PM


