iCloud has removed a major folder from my iMac, and duplicated it, on my Macbook, & I'm thoroughly confused.
I must've selected to share my Documents & Desktop folders to the cloud. However, on my iMac, I no longer have them shown in the sidebar, and must click on the iCloud icon, and then click on one or the other folders within it. And I'm assuming, that if I'm not connected to the internet, I probably can't access either folder, since they both exist only in the cloud.
Meanwhile, in attempting to transfer, or merely sync those folders to my MacBook Pro, somehow I ended up with my Documents file (& maybe the Desktop, too), duplicated, so I have two of everything in the folders! Both of these situations are not what I intended, nor want.
I read that I can drag folders from iCloud to my computer, but I tried and nothing moved. Although on the MacBook it could be how I now have a duplicate of those folders. Why is this not made more clear? When I selected them to be shared/synced via the cloud, I never wanted them to not be on my computer. And then everytime I moved a file from either folder, I get a window popping up asking me if I really want to remove that item from the cloud!! I don't want it to be only in the cloud, so what do I do??
iMac 21.5", macOS 10.13