I have no local Documents folder or Desktop folder but they do exist in my iCloud account. How do I restore these folders on my MacBook Pro? I still want to keep them synced with iCloud. I am running the latest version of macOS Tahoe on an M4 MacBook Pro.
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 26.1
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
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.
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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?
No local Documents folder or Desktop folder
