I turned off iCloud documents and it deleted all my documents on my MacBook Air. I went on iCloud.com and found the documents but it will only let me download individual files not the folders all the files are in. Is there a way for me to download the files instead of selecting each individual file as there are hundreds of files?
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15
Have you tried turning it back on on the MacBook Air?
If you uncheck the box of desktops and documents .
It will prompt the items from this desktop and the documents folder are available in iCloud Drive , to remove items from iCloud Drive , move them to your desktop and documents folder on this Mac , click on show in finder .
Again open system preferences > iCloud > iCloud Drive > the box of desktops and documents box is unchecked , tap over the box to get it rechecked , a circle rotates setting up the box gets checked .
You will notice a folder is created literally on the desktop , tap it a pop up window appears the items on this desktop on this Mac have been moved into a new folder called “ Desktops - Apples Mac book …( the name of Mac will be written in the existing desktop folder in iCloud Drive , you can combine the contents of these folders any time , click on show in finder .
Right click on the folder created on the Mac and move to trash , restart the Mac and empty the trash , but again the documents are placed in a right place in iCloud Drive as well in iCloud server .
By unchecking the box of desktops and documents - the files and documents created are invisible temporarily both in iCloud Drive and www.icloud.com but they are not deleted from the server and still occupying the space , you can check the box and use get info https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/mac-help/mchlp1774/10.14/mac/10.14
Downloading files from iCloud.com
