Documents in iCloud made me to format my Mac

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Documents in iCloud made me to format my Mac

I turned on Documents on iCloud by mistake on my intel MacBook Pro and after turning it off I could not stop getting them synced with my iCloud. Suddenly I had two folder Documents - iCloud. Documents - Local. Thankfully I can reverted it on my M3 Max MacBook Pro, but the Intel is so slow that it took hours and I don't know what was happening. I had to reformat and restore from Time Machine.

Please fix iCloud or don't ship this option at all. When "ON" does something -> "OFF" needs to revert it.

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 14.6

Posted on Sep 6, 2024 2:46 PM

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Answer 1

muguy

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Sep 9, 2024 1:23 AM in response to Juanjoseluisgarcia

It does. When turned off, synced documents remain in iCloud and a new desktop and documents folder are created on your Mac. Dragging the files from iCloud to the new desktop and documents folders is all that you need to do.

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Answer 2

Sep 9, 2024 3:13 AM in response to muguy

Thanks. It did. The thing was it is so slow and resource consuming on an Intel Mac that I thought it was a iCloud issue. In my M3 Max it goes better, but iCloud needs a makeover regardless.

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