More and more it seems iCloud is taking over. I just noticed, after the Monterey update, that Macintosh HD has nothing personal in it. I can search for individual things and they're all there, but they aren't listed.
I've been using Macs since the mid 90's and I have tons of stuff. I have a backup drive too, but that's for emergencies. So is there anything physically stored on my iMac anymore? Or is it all on some server in some Apple building?
Your personal info and files are in the Data volume (not shown on desktop, but still in your user folder). FWIW, I have nothing stored in iCloud - everything is on my Mac and several backup drives.
Remember what iCloud is used for. If you have multiple devices that you want to access your data on iCloud is invaluable. For example, my wife and I travel. I store documents I may need access to in the cloud so I can access them when needed. For example, I like having access to a copy of my passport, reservations, check-in info, etc is/when needed.
Babowa and I have different points of view on cloud storage, neither of us is wrong we just may have different needs and solutions that work for us.
In short, you need to first fully understand what cloud storage is and determine for yourself if it is something want and need or not.
Excellent expanation! For me, it is mostly a question regarding privacy - I would not trust anything I stored online on a nameless machine (server) to be safe. Systems get hacked into far too often nowadays. I prefer to only leave the tiniest footprint online that I can get away with.
Only what you tell iCloud to store on iCloud is stored on iCloud.
Thanks to both of you for replying. So Apple has to go and change things. Grump grump. Get off my lawn. I will try and figure out how to tell iCloud what I want stored on it.
Thanks and I understand.
Is everything on iCloud now?
