Hello! Desktop/documents from System Preferences is off, I simply copied the folders/documents from the Mac to the iCloud Drive.
The situation now is that I still have the originals on the computer (I want them there in order to work, I do not want to work from inside the cloud) + the same documents on the iCloud Drive (which show up on the iCloud Drive folder on the computer), therefore I have the same documents twice on the computer, taking up space twice.
What I want to achieve is simply to have my files backed up on the Cloud (keeping the originals on my computer). With other Clouds such as Dropbox, OneDrive, ..., whatever is placed on the Cloud does not stay on the computer under the Cloud folder, it is totally on the Cloud (no space taken twice).
I am sure there is a trick/method to do this on iCloud Drive (backup files on the cloud not staying on the computer, totally separate on the Cloud). I have been using Macs for almost 30 years, would like to be able to use the iCloud Drive as a simple backup (no sync).
Thank you!