No local Documents folder or Desktop folder

bcsternberg wrote: … I am not finding that setting. I went to System Settings and selected my account. I selected iCloud and no where do I see Options. Am I looking in the wrong place?

System Settings>[name]>iCloud>Drive gets this:

When you turn on Desktop & Downloads Folders, they stop appearing in your User's folder, and the show up in iCloud Drive, instead. If you're not using Optimize ( you can see above that I don't,) then the files continue to be kept locally, but they are copied to iCluod.com so they can be shared and accessed by other devices on your account.

This might help:

Understanding iCloud Drive - Apple Community

Your Desktop and Documents folders moved into iCloud when “Desktop & Documents Folders” was enabled. To restore them locally while keeping sync, re-enable that setting in iCloud Drive → Options. If needed, toggle it off/on or reset iCloud Drive so macOS recreates the local folder stubs.

bcsternberg wrote:

I am not finding that setting. I went to System Settings and selected my account. I selected iCloud and no where do I see Options. Am I looking in the wrong place?

Sorry, you ended up responding to a user that does nothing more than provide AI responses and never follows up with any user to provide the actual human assistance expected on this support site. Not sure why Apple lets the user continue to post, but here we are.

Follow what was posted by Richard.Taylor and they will be able to follow up with any needed help and a very respectable user who volunteers their time to assist others.

Mac Jim ID wrote: …Sorry, you ended up responding to a user that does nothing more than provide AI responses and never follows up with any user to provide the actual human assistance expected on this support site. Not sure why Apple lets the user continue to post, but here we are.

As with much of AI, some of "his" posts have useful information while others have flat out wrong stuff. Generally it's cold and incomplete. I've been following "him" around for some time-- not happy that my role is checking AI posts for accuracy.

Richard.Taylor wrote:

As with much of AI, some of "his" posts have useful information while others have flat out wrong stuff. Generally it's cold and incomplete. I've been following "him" around for some time-- not happy that my role is checking AI posts for accuracy.

Not only is inaccuracy a concern leaving others to clean up, but what is most disheartening for me is when the OP asks a follow up question as seen here and we no there will be not be a follow up. That human connection is the most important part of a Support Site such as this and leaves an OP hanging unless we can somehow find these posts to provide the needed information.

Thank you for being here where you can actually provide screenshots and links for more information that is never found in those other types of posts.