How to Turn off Backup Documents on iCloud drive ?

Thank for the info,

muguy. I found the "Doc" tab inside the Preference iCloud options

button. When I try to un-check the box that says Docs I get the following

warning: "If you continue, the items will be deleted from the desktop and

Documents folder on this Mac. They will remain available on iCloud Drive.

New items added to the

desktop or Documents folder on this Mac will no longer be stored on iCloud

Drive."

Since I am trying to

create space on iCloud I don't want docs to remain on iCloud. What I do wish is

for the docs to stay on my computer (and only on my computer) without having to

verify folder by folder doc by doc that they are indeed on my computer and if

needs be drag and drop them on my hard drive before erasing them from iCloud. This

does now seem a hopeless thing to wish for, however. As "docs" takes up a big part of the

storage space I have to get rid of them. In addition it serves no purpose to

store my docs on iCloud drive because I am not trying to share "docs"

on several devices. As I said I am confused by the distinction being made

between backing up my phone iPad but not backing up my computer. In the

meantime the other sharing apps that I do use across devices have stopped

working (i.e. "Notes") and instead I see messages saying that I have

no storage space left.  This is all very inconvenient

as I backed up my computer on a separate hard drive recently purchased for that

purpose and thought that I had solved the problem.

Muguy, Thanks for for your reply.

I hope that everything was copied successfully. There was some delay due to the

internet connection. I am still checking if all the files were copied and are

in working order.