iCloud Drive has deleted all my Documents and Desktop folders

I used TimeMachine to restore my Documents. I have them back now.

Why in the world would anyone want their files to be deleted before they were uploaded to another location? That is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard of. I can see asking, once there have been uploaded if you’d like them removed… But to just take them away without even mentioning it is idiotic and I really hope that that’s not the only answer to this guys question .

Completely agree with you.

And if at the least they displayed a warning message that says “Warning: any files in the process of uploading will be deleted”, that would be a 100% improvement over what’s happening right now.

Unless you are the individual that single-handedly invented iDrive and take all criticisms of it personally, I don’t know why you’re even bothering to respond, much less be offended by what I just said.

Apparently you are one of these folks that is it takes offense almost like it’s a sport.

The truth of the matter is, I found a workaround and rescued myself from all my files being completely deleted. It was a horrible situation and would’ve cost me (and two dozen clients) months of work. If you somehow think that’s a great idea, I don’t know what to tell you.

Furthermore, if you are the only person in the world that never clicked on something without first reading the manual, congratulations… but you’re the only one.

Anything else?

Why in the world do you think WE would know? That is how it works. That's how Apple designed it. I have no idea why. And it is against the TOU of this forum to speculate on why Apple does what it does. So please find someone else to take your vexation out on.

GB

We have not at any point discussed Apple's reasoning as to how iCloud Drive works. As I said in the previous post, speculating on why Apple does what it does is against the TOU of this forum. So, there has been no discussion about why.

I responded because your post was directed at me. My name is at the top of your post. It says "In response to gail from maine".

Apparently your one of those folks who think it's OK to be rude, ungracious, and uncivil to anyone you wish on an online forum because you are protected by anonymity. And if you found a workaround, why haven't you been spending your time posting it as a recommendation to the other people on this thread who are having this issue instead of attacking people for no reason?

Have you contributed anything except criticism here? If so, then I apologize, but I'm not seeing it.

GB

Sir: I said "unless explicitly requested to do so." This means, since you seem to miss the point, that if I delete it, Apple can/should delete it. If I do NOT delete it, Apple should keep its cotton-picking hands to itself.

I agree it pays to learn and I wonder why Apple doesn't.

Do you ever take off your Apple Hat and think about how thing might be rather than how Apple cobbles them together?

Thanks for your attention.

I do not have an Apple hat

and no, in helping people use software (any software) I never think about how things might be since that is totally useless - to help people you need to understand how things are since that is all you can help them with

Posta like yours are worthless and accomplish nothing - what is is and what might be is not - to help you need to deal with what is

LN

I've avoided opting in to iCloud Drive precisely because it removes documents from the local machine. Having read this thread, I'm minded to ask: does Time Machine keep backups of files that are stored in iCloud Drive?

I have never put forward any argument, and I certainly have never suggested "automatically". I announced a decision I had made and asked a question, in response to which you had a pop.

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Not to pile on, put the notion put forward in the quote below seems very odd to me, so much so that I wonder if it is accurate.

"When you select the option to use iCloud Drive for Desktop & Documents, that is exactly what it does - it removes them from the local drive and puts them on iCloud Drive. Since you cancelled the process in the middle, the folders had already been removed from the local drive, but had not yet finished uploading to iCloud Drive."

Apple is reasonable, usually, so I imagine there would not be a time when your files were NOT on one or the other, i.e. your drive or the iCloud Drive. GFM suggests there is a point at which the data is swirling around untethered in the ether! I wish we had some formal clarification of this issue.

Also, as a side note, I have found that while the folks here try their best to help others, often things end up in a kind of counter productive wrangle. In these cases I usually move on to other more objective forums such as MacRumors or MacObserver and similar. Doing so also lightens the load on the dozen or so folks here who do the bulk of the replying to especially new user questions.

Sorry, not understanding what you are indicating happened? Are you saying you turned off the Desktop & Documents option in System Preferences>iCloud>iCloud Drive>Options>Desktop & Documents?

If so, what happened when you turned that option back on again?

Or, have you looked at iCloud Drive contents in iCloud.com via a browser on a computer?

Need some clarification.

Cheers,

GB

Ummmmmmmm because it’s a discussion board and you seemed to be discussing the same kind of topic?

OMG, thank you so much for posting this! Wasn't really paying attention and totally made the same mistake as OP. Thought I lost 4GB of video footage. all in the archive. THANK YOU!

Wow thank you so much!!