MacBook Pro iCloud documents

I have a lot of documents that have backed up to iCloud that I don't want to share with other devices. Is there anyway to create a second document folder that sits on my MacBook Pro System Mojave 10.14.6?

MacBook Pro 13”, macOS 10.14

Posted on Jan 31, 2020 9:36 AM

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Jan 31, 2020 9:40 AM in response to judyfromwilliamslake

If you mean that you want to create a folder that does not sync to iCloud or to other devices, you can do that. Open a Finder window, use the "Go" menu in the menu bar and click "Home" in it. Then use the Finder File menu and click New Folder. I would recommend naming the folder something other than "Documents" in order to avoid confusion.

Then move the files that you don't want synced to that new folder.

Jan 31, 2020 9:58 AM in response to FoxFifth

It worked....thank you 😊

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