Syncing Laptop & Desktop Documents folder - made duplicates instead, help!

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Syncing Laptop & Desktop Documents folder - made duplicates instead, help!

I had previously been syncing my desktop and laptop Documents folder using ChronoSync, so each device had an identical copy of each document.

I just upgraded to Sonoma (on each device) and was prompted to sync Documents & Desktop using iCloud, so thought I'd give it a try. BUT IT DIDN'T SYNC – instead, I've got two copies of everything clogging up my iCloud drive.

How do I make this actually sync and not just duplicate??? Do I have to manually delete everything now???

iMac 27″, macOS 14.5

Posted on Jun 7, 2024 4:44 PM

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alyssawright Author

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Jun 7, 2024 7:23 PM in response to muguy

There are duplicates of every folder (and file) that was in my local Documents folders, adding the suffix "2" to the duplicate. When I turned on syncing to the second device, it did NOT sync and instead created a second copy of everything.

Here's a sample of the structure:

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muguy

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Jun 7, 2024 7:03 PM in response to alyssawright

Syncing does just that, no copies are made. How did you discover duplicates? What did you do to get those duplicates? Where are the duplicates located (eg. in the exact same folder and path)?

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