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wakey182 Author

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iCloud sign out - will it delete files that aren't synced to iCloud?

Hey,

I'm hoping someone can help me out.

Just bought a new Macbook Air and I want to transfer some stuff from my old (work) macbook but not all the work stuff. I think I've done most of it and now I want to sign out of iCloud on the work macbook. I've set the work files to not sync to iCloud, so that they're no longer there and taking up space. So I want them all to remain on the old macbook.

If I sign out will they stay?

Many thanks

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jun 27, 2020 11:17 AM

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Winston Churchill

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Posted on Jun 27, 2020 1:49 PM

Welcome to the Apple community.

Before actually signing out of iCloud on your old computer, I would be inclined to disable each service (i.e. contacts, calendars, iCloud Drive et cetera) and on each occasion make the appropriate option to either keep or delete the data related to that service.

Having completed this you can then safely sign out of iCloud.

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