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Mattheweee Author

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How to selectively prevent some folders from being uploaded to iCloud Drive?

I'm subscribed to the iCloud Drive. There are some documents and folders that I want to upload to the iCloud Drive while there are some (especially the big ones) that I don't and I simply want to store them locally on my laptop. However, I could not move those folders that I only want to store locally out of the desktop or the documents folder. So my question is - how do I prevent certain folders from being uploaded to the iCloud Drive while not completely turning off the iCloud Drive function for other folders?

Posted on Jan 4, 2022 8:15 PM

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muguy

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Posted on Jan 5, 2022 8:30 AM

You cannot. Anything in iCloud Drive will sync (and anything in desktop and documents if you have that enabled). You can move the folders to a location that is not synced -- home folder or downloads folder.

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