If you turn off icloud drive, all documents stored in icloud will be deleted from this pc-???

autochthon wrote:

This makes no sense-what am i missing?

Common sense and some basic logic skills, apparently.

Just move the files to another folder on your PC before you turn off iCloud drive.

When you elected to use iCloud Drive you chose to move documents there, nobody else took that decision.

The answer is of course very simple, move the docs in iCloud Drive to your PC before you disconnect.

Do you not know how to use Windows Explorer?

You didn't ask a "simple question". You posted what amounts to a rant.

Then how did you put files on it.

Did you actually save files on the iCloud Drive, yes or no.

autochthon wrote:

I was thinking about getting rid of iCloud, but when I opened the iCloud application on my 64-bit Win7 PC and unchecked 'iCloud Drive', I got this message.

I don't understand. my documents are MY documents.

No-one disagrees with that

They don't belong to iCloud. If i turn off iCloud Drive, why would any documents be deleted from my PC?

When you sign out of an account (like your bank) it is normal to lose access to the content of the account

How do i find out what documents are supposedly going to be deleted?

That would be the ones you put there

There is apparently no way that I can go to 'iCloud' and view what's stored there in a file/folder view.

There is more than one way

iCloud is only supposed to be a 'cloud' backup and multi-device sharing space.

That may be your idea of what it should be, but that is not what it is, reality wins

When I activated iCloud, I never knowingly authorized iCloud to remove any documents from my PC, under any circumstances.

But that is exactly what you did, in future try reading what you agree to, it makes for less confusion after you do it

Nicely done!