annettepeyton

Q: Documents MOVED to iCloud

Wow, I just realized, with the new upgrade to Sierra, my Documents folder was MOVED to iCloud. I thought I did quite a lot of reading about the new upgrade before actually doing it, and I don't recall EVER reading that this would occur. I know it said contents of my desktop would be available on all my devices but I don't recall ever reading that my documents folder would me MOVED. Was this written somewhere in Apple's documentation?

 

If not, I would like to express my disappointment that Apple would automatically do this rather than make it an option that I could select IF I wanted to do it. I am an Apple fan, I love their products, do all my work on apple products and have all my memories stored in apple products, but I find this lack of disclosure appalling.  Was this just a way to get people to sign up for more storage?

 

There are many reasons I need my design documents, fonts, customer files, stored on my computer rather than in a cloud so I really wish we were given the opportunity to make this selection, rather than have it made for us.

 

Just needed to vent my disappointment in this issue.

 

Annette

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)

Posted on Sep 26, 2016 1:21 PM

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  • by Barney-15E,

    Barney-15E Barney-15E Sep 28, 2016 4:52 PM in response to annettepeyton
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    Sep 28, 2016 4:52 PM in response to annettepeyton

    annettepeyton wrote:

     

    I'm still not sure why apple has to make this so difficult. Don't mess with my files, I'll manage them.

    You told them to mess with them when you enabled Desktop and Documents during the setup assistant.

    I didn't find anything difficult about it. It said it was going to move my Desktop and Documents folder into iCloud and that's what it did.

    When I disabled it, it told me what was going to happen and how to move my files back onto my hard drive. All pretty simple.

  • by Lanny,

    Lanny Lanny Sep 28, 2016 5:03 PM in response to annettepeyton
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    Sep 28, 2016 5:03 PM in response to annettepeyton

    If not, I would like to express my disappointment that Apple would automatically do this rather than make it an option that I could select IF I wanted to do it.

    It was an option, you were prompted for it during the setup. The option may have been checked by default, but you had the oppurtunity to uncheck it before proceeding. It wasn't Apple's fault that you missed it.

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