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Saving documents on the hard drive... not iCloud

I just bought the new MacBook Pro with the touch bar and it has 256gb memory. When I save things it automatically saves them to iCloud, and there is even an iCloud folder. I don't need to use iCloud and would simply like to save everything to the hard drive, just like in the older MacBooks. Now I have a lot of files with "Out of Space" written underneath them.

Is there a way I can just save everything directly to the hard drive?

Thanks!

Yes. Click on the , then on System Preferences>iCloud>iCloud Drive>Options, and uncheck the Desktop & Documents option. You can also move all of the documents & desktop items in those folders on iCloud Drive to new folders you have set up on your Mac.

When you save documents, you will be asked where you want to save them going forward.

Cheers,

GB

Thank you!!!

You are most welcome

Cheers,

GB

I have the same question. When I followed your instructions, it gave me this message: "If you continue, items will be removed from the Desktop and the Documents folder on this Mac and will remain available in iCloud Drive." That sounds like the OPPOSITE of what I want to accomplish.

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. You should then be able to delete the files from iCloud Drive in Finder. When complete, rearrange the files as desired.

If you continue, items will be removed from the Desktop and the Documents folder on this Mac and will remain available in iCloud Drive." That sounds like the OPPOSITE of what I want to accomplish.

If your turn off iCloud Drive from the iCloud preferences, NOT the Desktop and Documents folder sub-option, you should get the dialog you are looking for.

Then you'll get this dialog, which give you the option to download your files to an archive before turning off iCloud Drive.

what will happen to the files that say "out of space" underneath them, since I assume they are not actually being stored in iCloud? Will they just disappear all together?

Where are you seeing files that have out of space underneath them?

I just followed this and said keep a copy.  However, I can not find an iCloud archive anywhere.  All my files are now deleted and don't know how to get them back.  Please help as some of the files were very important.  Was just trying to save files on my hard drive and now iCloud Drive.

iCloud should have created a folder under your user name called iCloud Drive (archive)

Is there a way to do the exact opposite of this? Like if I have 2tb of files uploaded to my icloud and only a 128gb laptop, I obviously can't download it all and definitely don't want some algorithm guessing what files and folders I want using up my hard drive.

There is no way for you to use iCloud Drive and also to manually manage what documents are on your Mac. You have to use the Optimize feature and allow the algorithm to determine if a file needs to be removed from your Mac to manage available memory.

And the algorithm does not "guess". If you need more memory, then it leaves the most currently used documents on your Mac. You can download any document that lives in iCloud only when you have Optimization turned on.

Best of luck,

GB

That is absolutely insane.

Thank you for your answer though.

Buying a MAC is one of the worst things I have ever done. I did it to start developing apps but this thing is so wonky. I wish I would've bought a PC. I love that my computer makes me save things places that I don't want it to. I had to download acrobat because ibooks is awful. It just continues to frustrate me.

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