HDTVeditor wrote:
Hallelujah!!! That's what I'm saying. I work with a lot of temporary video files. I don't need iCloud to back up 30GB every evening. The part that I love, if you're thinking of turning off the iCloud for now, is how it says "the items WILL BE REMOVED???" what planet are we on? don't remove anything for Christ sake. just stop backing everything up and tying up my internet connection. I'm trying to play Xbox here.
No one is suggesting that you turn off iCloud. You simply need to turn off the option in iCloud Drive. System Preferences>iCloud>iCloud Drive>Options>turn off the Desktop & Documents Folders option. BUT:
Before you do that, if you want to move the contents of the Desktop & Documents folders back to your Mac, then do the following:
1. Create a couple of new "temporary" folders on your Mac and append them with a 1 or some other unique character (Desktop1 and Documents1, for example).
2. Drop and drag any files in the iCloud Drive Desktop and Documents folders to the new ones on the Mac
3. Then turn off the Desktop & Documents option in System Preferences>iCloud>iCloud Drive>Options.
4. Doing that will result in new, empty Desktop and Documents folders being created on your Mac - you can then move the contents in your "temporary" folders into the new Desktop and Documents folders, then delete the "temporary" ones.
5. You can also then go to iCloud.com on your browser, and delete anything in those folders that you no longer want on iCloud Drive.
And, yes, if you turn off iCloud, then iCloud-related items will no longer be accessible from your Mac. They may be removed (if local copies are being kept there for use when you are offline), but they remain on iCloud. That is how it works, and that is always the message you get when you turn off iCloud on any Mac or iOS device. If you continue, that will be followed by a message that enables you to back up certain information before iCloud is turned off.
Cheers,
GB
