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turning the iCloud on and off and all of a sudden ...

Hello,

Here is what I did on my Mac air

1- system preference -> Apple ID -> iCloud

then I turned "iCloud Drive" on in "Apps on this Mac using iCloud"


Then I realized this is not what I wanted. So decided to turn if off. Then the message popped up that:

If you turn off iCloud Drive, all documents stored in iCloud will be removed from this Mac.


2- I selected "Keep a copy"

Now I have a folder on my Mac named: iCloud Drive archive


How can I restore everything from this archive?


Thank you so much.




MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jul 11, 2020 5:34 PM

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Posted on Jul 11, 2020 5:37 PM

You have to manually drag the files to the desire location, such as the Documents folder.

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turning the iCloud on and off and all of a sudden ...

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