Hello,
I have both a personal and work MacBook Air connected to my apple ID and synced to iCloud.
While I like having my files backed up I would prefer to keep my personal files on my personal computer only.
Is there a way to select a specific set of folders to keep on each Mac?
Thanks
RhialtoTheMarvellous wrote:
The problem people are having is that it's far too broad to say "Yes, store my ENTIRE desktop and Documents too onto iCloud!" but making people manually store individual files is too burdensome. What we are asking for is the ability to designate *specific* folders to be shared/stored onto iCloud.
This is in no way a crazy or unusual wish, and ought to be fixed.
You have complete control over this. All you have to do is to turn OFF the Desktop & Documents option in >System Preferences>iCloud>iCloud Drive>Options.
Before you do that, you would probably want to move them back to your Mac by creating a uniquely named set of folders for each (like Desktop1 and Documents1), then moving the files to the new folders on your Mac. Once you have done that, you can turn off the option.
Then, you can select whatever specific files you want to upload to iCloud Drive. It's really quite simple. Why would you select the option if you don't like how it works?
Cheers,
GB
Does for me, Clearly you now have another problem to attend to.
All clicking on your link does is open the google browser
I cannot believe that Microsoft is so much better than apple. I have been an apple fan for over forty years. This *****
You would have to specify what you mean by "better". Personally, I work with both, and I would choose Apple over Windows any day....
GB
Then something on your system is broken.
Type this in >>> http://apple.com/feedback
As I said, it works fine.
You are most welcome! Glad that helped to clarify the unique usage of iCloud that Apple employs. 🙂
Best of luck,
GB
agrandj wrote:
I think I have the same question as OP, and I don't believe it's been answered. If I'm correct that we have the same question, let me try to rephrase:
Is it possible to use iCloud services on a device and only sync *selected* files and folders? Google Drive allows you to do this.
To illustrate, say that you have a MacBook for personal use, and you sync 100% of the data it stores with iCloud. On a separate computer used for work purposes, can you install iCloud and use it to sync a single folder that contains only work-related data, so that you're not storing and syncing personal files on your work computer?
You cannot do that with the same iCloud ID. It's the same drive, so not sure what you mean? If you put a folder on a hard drive, and then put a different folder from a different computer on that same drive, both folders are going to be there. Same principle.
GB
You need to go to System Preferences/iCloud/iCloud Drive/Options to turn off Documents and Desktop syncing to control what syncs.
Copy the files from iCloud Drive to a folder other than Documents and the Desktop. Go to System Preferences/iCloud/iCloud Drive/Options and turn off syncing. Rearrange the files as desired. If desired, you can then delete the files from iCloud if syncing is turned off.
1 - iCloud is not a backup, it is a syncing service
2 - How are you using iCloud? If you are using iCloud Drive then you simply do not put items you do not want to sync via iCloud into the folders that you have on iCloud Drive - only the folders you put on iCloud Drive are synced via iCloud Drive
LN
As I said before, I use Onedrive as a shared platform between 3 windows PC's, a MacBookPro 2 ipads and 3 iphones and a NAS, to keep subsets of data available on the relevant devices and to have fairly direct access to things if I need it.
Onedrive can only deal with 1Tb of storage per account, and the logistics of 3 Onedrive accounts are annoying, but it does allow you to select a subset of folders/files for synchronization.
Or you could leave D&D on and place the 'Syncmeautomatically' folder in the documents folder, or even leave it on the desktop.
Syncing specific folders to iCloud
