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I agree it seems that Apple is making it difficult to save on my hard drive and forcing me to pay for iCloud. I think this should be raised as a class action suit. Apple has had this kind of exclusive predatory behavior in the past.
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 14.6
By default, anything in iCloud is also on your Mac unless you choose to optimize files. When you optimize storage, some files may offload to iCloud only status but only if space becomes necessary on your device. You can drag and drop files from a synchronized location to a non-synchronized location at any time.
How is Apple making it difficult to save to your local drive?
My documents are automatically saved to iCloud. If I try to manage them, it deletes them from iCloud. There is hardly anything on my hard drive. I am already a couple years into this so I can't just delete all my work. If they wanted to make it easy, they would let you open two finder windows and just drag the files over. Or right or left click and save them to the hard drive. I have been working on this for over 30 minutes and have not figured out an easy way to do this as of yet. The only way to "manage" what is in iCloud is either by deleting individual records or wholesale delete. I want to download to hard drive before I do that.
How so you move them from iCloud to your hard drive? I have over 10,000 documents. Am I supposed to do them one at a time? There is a much longer thread with over 4000 comments where people are complaining about the same problem. I didn't see an easy answer - would love if there is one
The only place I can save them is in one file - the one with the house - Home Screen. Anywhere else, it is either not allowing it or automatically uploading them to my iCloud. It shouldn't be that hard
TracyTrail wrote:
The only place I can save them is in one file - the one with the house - Home Screen. Anywhere else, it is either not allowing it or automatically uploading them to my iCloud. It shouldn't be that hard
It is very hard for us to assist without being able to see or touch your device. You may have to give us a little more information or provide some screenshots.
They also give you a nice photo application but the photos save to iCloud. If I switch it off I have 30 days to download my photos. So they aren't really giving you a nice application to store photos. They are giving you an application that ties to iCloud so if you end up having to many documents, then you have to buy memory. Why buy a computer with a lot of memory on the hard drive if you have to manipulate everything and save things in odd places in order to avoid using iCloud. It's not right. So there is one folder only I can drag documents to but the moment I try to put it on my finder sidebar as a standalone favorite it wants to upload to iCloud.. So some things may be possible, but it is not easy and requires a less than optimal solution or workaround. This is exactly what Apple is expert at. Look at iTunes, etc
You can save your files wherever you like
TracyTrail wrote:
If they wanted to make it easy, they would let you open two finder windows and just drag the files over.
Except you CAN do exactly this.
It is not working. My Mac is not allowing me to do this
Not allowing me to drag a folder from iCloud in one Finder window to On My Mac in another one
Automatically Saving to iCloud and Making it Difficult to Save to Hard Drive
