Running 11.2.3 on my 2019 iMac.

[allan53]

I clicked "desktop and Documents Folders" in my iCloud account and now my document and desktop are on iCloud, not my iMac drive. How do I get them bck on my iMac drive and off iCloud - without losing anything?

I have Optimize Mac Storage not checked.

Thaanks.

 

[haralds]

You should be able to access them from the Finder Sidebar under iCloud.
CMD-D in a dialog still gets the Deskstop and it should still be displayed on the Finder background.

 

[fisherking]

copy all the content to a folder ON your mac (ie name one 'desk' and one 'docs'... or something. once you're sure you have everything, empty the cloud folders, then go to system preferences & disable 'desktop & docs' in the cloud settings. you'll then have a documents folder in your home folder: move the items you want there to that folder, and put on the desktop what you want there.

if there's a simpler way to this, someone please post! i've never used the desk/docs in cloud thing...

 

[haralds]

copy all the content to a folder ON your mac (ie name one 'desk' and one 'docs'... or something. once you're sure you have everything, empty the cloud folders, then go to system preferences & disable 'desktop & docs' in the cloud settings. you'll then have a documents folder in your home folder: move the items you want there to that folder, and put on the desktop what you want there.

if there's a simpler way to this, someone please post! i've never used the desk/docs in cloud thing...

It should just move the folder contents. If it gets confused, there might be a second set of folders in iCloud labeled something like Documents 1 and Desktop 1. I've never had it lose files and use it on all my Macs.

 

[allan53]

Thanaks for the suggestions. I did what haralds said to do in his second post, based on what fisherking mentioned. I thought I could do this before I posted but I wanted to make sure I did not do anything that would have me lose data.

 

[fisherking]

Thanaks for the suggestions. I did what haralds said to do in his second post, based on what fisherking mentioned. I thought I could do this before I posted but I wanted to make sure I did not do anything that would have me lose data.

2 things: if you copy files from one place to another, you have 2 copies... and can delete one. and there's always time machine...

 

[allan53]

I guess I was not clear. I got rid of them from iCloud. They wer etaking too much space and I have several local backups.