Pictures folder macOS, store in iCloud?

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Pictures folder macOS, store in iCloud?

This was touched on in the past, and the people that replied seem to not use MacOS?

I'd like to include my "Pictures Folder" from my MacOS to iCloud storage.

This is not Photos, and I do not want to include these to Photos, I want to have access to my multiple machines that use my iCloud service to the "Pictures Folder" in the MacOS system.

The 'Pictures Folder" is a separate area that I store many pictures on Mac, and do not store them in Photos.

Now I know I've said the same thing a few times, and that is because I'm not looking for responders to start talking about "Photos" it is not the same thing, and I do not want to intermingle these two places that I store pictures. Do I have to just make a folder in iCloud and manually move these myself, drag and drop every so often? It's just super bizarre that Apple isn't setting up iCloud of the MacOS folder system "Pictures" as they do with Desktop and Documents? Just curious for those of you that have this issue, and what work arounds you have used, tried, and if they are successful ??

Thanks.

Posted on Dec 22, 2023 9:11 AM

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Answer 1

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muguy

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Dec 23, 2023 7:25 PM in response to gregraygun_apple_place

Yes. You need to copy those into iCloud Drive. Only pictures in Photos sync automatically across devices.

If you wish, you could create a folder action to move anything dropped into Pictures to iCloud Drive. Or, you could simply store the photos in iCloud Drive and skip the Pictures folder all together.

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Answer 2

Dec 24, 2023 8:01 AM in response to muguy

As per usual with Apple, they want to control too much, and the 'folder action' is a PITA

So I ended up using "Sync Folders Pro" which works great and once I knew I had to just make a copy of the folder in iCloud seems to be the best solution for me. I made the folder in iCloud, "Mac_Pictures". 😉

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