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Files missing from Documents and Desktop. Want to put them back. Please help.

I don't care what iCloud has done. I don't care what you think I've done to make Apple send all my files to iCloud. I never wanted them to go to iCloud. I never authorized Apple to do it. I don't need you to argue that I had some setting in Preferences to send all my files to iCloud. I just need help getting them back on my desktop and in my documents folder ON MY HARD DRIVE, not in some make believe 'cloud' where things exist in pretense land.


If you can help me please do. If you want to tell me that I made my computer do it, go to **** please and never bother me again. I don't need your apple fan boy crap.

Posted on Jan 25, 2019 7:47 PM

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Posted on Jan 25, 2019 7:58 PM

According to: Add your Desktop and Documents files to iCloud Drive - Apple Support

"Turn off Desktop and Documents

When you turn off Desktop & Documents Folders, your files stay in iCloud Drive and a new Desktop and Documents folder is created on your Mac in the home folder. You can move files from iCloud Drive to your Mac as you need them, or select all of your files and drag them to the place you want to keep them.

  1. From your Mac, go to Apple menu  > System Preferences > iCloud.
  2. Next to iCloud Drive, click Options.
  3. Deselect Desktop & Documents Folders.
  4. Click Done.

If you turn off iCloud Drive or sign out of iCloud, you have the option to keep a local copy of your files that are in iCloud Drive. Whether you decide to keep a local copy or not, a new Desktop and Documents folder is created in your home folder. If you choose to keep a local copy, your files in iCloud Drive are copied to a folder called iCloud Drive (Archive) in your home folder. Then you have the option to move any files that were in your iCloud Desktop and Documents, back to your new local Desktop and Documents."

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Jan 25, 2019 7:58 PM in response to Adam Berkey

According to: Add your Desktop and Documents files to iCloud Drive - Apple Support

"Turn off Desktop and Documents

When you turn off Desktop & Documents Folders, your files stay in iCloud Drive and a new Desktop and Documents folder is created on your Mac in the home folder. You can move files from iCloud Drive to your Mac as you need them, or select all of your files and drag them to the place you want to keep them.

  1. From your Mac, go to Apple menu  > System Preferences > iCloud.
  2. Next to iCloud Drive, click Options.
  3. Deselect Desktop & Documents Folders.
  4. Click Done.

If you turn off iCloud Drive or sign out of iCloud, you have the option to keep a local copy of your files that are in iCloud Drive. Whether you decide to keep a local copy or not, a new Desktop and Documents folder is created in your home folder. If you choose to keep a local copy, your files in iCloud Drive are copied to a folder called iCloud Drive (Archive) in your home folder. Then you have the option to move any files that were in your iCloud Desktop and Documents, back to your new local Desktop and Documents."

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