Help Me Stop iCloud Sync in Mac OS Sierra!

I also want things on my desktop and not in some iCloud archive.

This form of control has to stop

Then as suggested, simply turn this feature off. Hardly a form of control if it has an off switch.

How can a group of users get the attention of Apple to ask them to quit trying to control out life?

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I think I lost all my files 😟

I de-selected the Documents and Desktop option before my files were all uploaded to iCloud and now I can't find them. After pasting the Documents and desktop folders back to my macbook it took me a while to realize that some of my files were missing.. so I decided to look for them in "All my files" folder and I found the name of the files but I couldn't open then because they seemed corrupted and the original files were missing.

I rechecked the option to see if they were just loading somewhere else but they are still missing and I now I can't even find the corrupted files anymore.

It's been a few hours since I've been trying to recover the files and I just can't find them anywhere and I don't have a backup for them. What should I do? 😟

I contacted Apple and the guy of support told me to just move the iCloud folder to my favorites and then to deactivated the iCloud for documents and guess what, I lost everything! then he made me look for all my documents, somewhere it was a documents folder with all my files without folders, I mean, 50 GB of files in just one folder... I had to reactivate the iCloud documents thing to get all my files back organized as always, I am still waiting for the sync finishing so I can have back all in my mac.

Will try sending all to an external drive now before disabling all this iCloud thing, it will take time tough. There was upon a time when working with Apple products was just easy.

I knew about this issue and I solved the same way as it is described in these posts. I then had to change my password for iCloud and didn't think any more or it, until I was with a new client and tried to access iCloud to present my brief and proposal in front of the whole board of directors and couldn't get access because Documents Desktop from a MacMini at Home had decided to upload everything to my iCloud!!!!!!!

I couldn't access anything for the new client! I lost the contract, Thanks Apple! The law suit is in the post!

So, I returned home and unlinked the MacMini from iCloud and completely. It even states "Turn on iCloud Drive to store your files in iCloud and access them anywhere o all your devices". All your files? I could only access a mere slice of my files, from computer that I hardly use!!!

Anyway, the MacMini is apparently disconnect. So when I open iCloud on my MBP, I shouldn't be able to see any documents or desktop item form the MacMini. Oh, no! they're still there. So, I delete them.... two seconds later, they're there again, filling up my iCloud!!!!!!!

All the setting are set to "DO NOT LOAD MY FILES TO iCloud!" iCloud has been signed out so it shouldn't be dong anything.

It should be simple Apple - Tick a box that says "do not load to iCloud. Not some smart arse trendy teenage talk that does the opposite to whats being asked of it!

I click on manage and theres all this crap in there that I've never given permission to be on there for Apps that I don't even use any more! where is it getting this information from? And to top it off, there no sodding way to stop it loading my files to iCloud from my desktop or documents! IMovie has an option to Delete documents and so does Photos. Why doesnt the option for Other documents, the one thats bulking out my space?

How can a group of users get the attention of Apple to ask them to quit trying to control out life? I want to control what I sync or if I even want to sync. I also want things on my desktop and not in some iCloud archive. This form of control has to stop. I am meeting with some senior congressman to see if there is a way to solve this issue permanently since Apple does not want to do it on their own.

Stopping it is trivial - turn off all iCloud Services since they do not do what you want - It is more than a bit over the top to try to get your "senior Congressman" to force any company to implement custom software just for you - the software is what it is and you have two choices, use it or do not use it - your approach is crazy and has zero chance of working

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My iCloud is doing the same and I have not tried to stop the upload. All my files are still on my MacBook Air but it's only uploaded 200kb of 86gib over 3 days.

It looks like it's stopped the upload of Parallels.

I did the same and all back on my MacBook Air.

Excellent and thanks🙂

I have this problems too, it's uploading parallel's windows 10's from documents! If I stop it I don't have windows 10 anymore and can't use parallels! This is ********, it's upload 19 gb of parallels and can't stop it! It will take forever, internet is **** here! upload is 400kb per second only!!! What can I do????????

Word of advice: let the files complete uploading to iCloud or they will not restore properly when you try to copy them back locally. NOT a fan of this "feature"!!! Bad Apple, bad

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