I've turned off backing up my Desktop and Documents to iCloud, so why does my Documents folder show up with two different names now? It's iCloud Drive in the Dock, Documents everywhere else.
Mac mini, macOS High Sierra (10.13)
I'll do my best to explain so bear with me....
In this image showing a Finder window sidebar, the top Documents folder's is not an actual folder. This is the Documents folder that you find in your User's (home) folder. The other two show as folders I created named Documents. One is on iCloud and the other on an external drive.
If you remove the iCloud Drive icon from the Dock, you should be able to drag the Documents folder in iCloud to your Dock. Option click on the icon. Select Folder. This will be the generic folder icon and not the icon for the last item you selected in the folder.
You can save your files to iCloud folder. They don't have to be in a folder.
Hope this helps!
If you have all your data in Documents and Desktop back in the local folders, you can delete the data in iCloud. The folders don't always delete right away after you have deleted the contents.
I believe you have to turn of iCloud Drive, hope this helps 🙂
I don't want to delete the folders. I'd just like the Documents folder to be called Documents in the Dock as well.
Well, I WANT to back up certain things to iCloud, just not the Documents folder or the Desktop. And I'd like Documents to be called Documents in the Dock as well as everywhere else.
Well, now, isn't that obvious!? Ha! Thank you so much. I'd thought of doing that but it seemed too simple.
Documents vs iCloud Drive
