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Default save location

When saving a document in TextEdit, the default seems to always be iCloud. I have to manually select my preferred destination on my Mac.


Is there a way to set the default to be the Desktop, for example? I don't see anything in the prefs or Help.

Posted on Jul 24, 2013 2:23 PM

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Posted on Jul 24, 2013 3:15 PM

Either turn of Documents in the iCloud System preferences, or run this command in Terminal:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool false

To switch it back, change false to true.

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Default save location

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