Storing Files Locally When Using iCloud Drive
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
- macmost.com/e-2520 Sometimes you may want to store files in iCloud Drive, and sometimes you may want to store files on your local drive. Depending on your settings, you can have both at all times. Or, you could use one of two methods to put some files either on iCloud Drive or only locally.
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I created an "On My Mac" folder to stay consistent with the Files app on iPhone and iPad, where there is a "On My iPhone" and "On My iPad" folder.
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I recently purchased a MacBook Pro 14. Though I’ve been using an iPad for several years, this is my first Mac. As a lifetime Windows user, well since Windows 3.0, I have been finding MacOS a bit frustrating. As you might imagine, I’ve watched hundreds of videos on the different Macs, and MacOS. (That can also be frustrating.) I wanted to let you know, Gary, that your videos have been the most helpful of any I’ve watched. I always find what I need, and they’re short videos, which is really appreciated. Thanks, Gary!
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Not sure how long you have been doing this, but I'm surprised you don't have 25M followers. You know your stuff man and you explain it very well. Thank you! At some point, I would love to see a video about managing songs you have had for years, from the days of CD's and burning music. I purchased a new MBP and I'm having difficulty playing the songs on my MBP because I have a couple thousand songs I didn't buy from Apple. I'm so glad I did save my music library to iCloud. But I'm having problems playing the song and finding instructions how to download my music library to my local drive. :( I'm thinking I must do that since I didn't buy the songs from apple.
It took me ages to find someone to answer this specific issue. Thank you. I have a brand new Macbook Pro that I didn't want to load with clutter from my old MacBook. I added the files I wanted to use while offline on a cruise ship in a few days. I gave iCloud a try. Then when I decided..."not now, I'll do that later", I unchecked a box and all the files I had loaded had disappeared up into the cloud (thin air). Along with a ton of other folders etc. Aargh. Your video helped me get safely back on track. Thank you so much.
Thank you for explaining this so clearly I was able to remove a lot of files stored locally that I just didnt need to access basically ever and ensured files I do want to access offline are there for me. This was great!
Thanks for your amazing tips. A third way for keeping files locally, what I use as developer, is to partition your disk in two. For example 1. Mac 2. User. One of the befits is that when we want to upgrade the OS, usually don't have to backup User drive but only the Mac drive in this case.
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Who knew you did now so do I. A very useful video tutorial today! Thanks for the visuals. Thank you, Gary! 👏👍🏻❤️
Blown away by your videos! You do such a great job explaining things and offering clear solutions / explanations for people. This was super helpful in setting my Macs (iMac and MacBook Air) up for exactly what I want. I have a question however. Is there a way to force my iCloud Drive files to be stored locally on my iPhone? I have plenty of space on the phone and it would be great to have local files present so I don't have to download them on the fly over cellular / wifi when I am out and about. Cheers. Thank you again so much.
This was extremely useful, especially given the recent revelation of iPhone/iPad security passcode vulnerability. It is best not to have anything, including synced iCloud files, on your phone or tablet that you don't want thieves to get their hands on. Gary's approach here is perfect to safeguard all your sensitive files ONLY on your Mac. Thanks, Gary!
perfect an obvious answer I couldn't find anywhere else, but perfectly answered my question. Thanks, so this is where Im going to dump all the files that I still need to sort from the last 15 years of machines I'm finally combining into my first new machine in years ! thanks , can't believe I forgot about home !
you brought up good things and helps me understand why having a hard time finding some files. Always good info! thanks
Great video, Gary. you are helping me a lot to transition from Windows to Mac. Thanks!
crushed it, thank you sir, I pride myself on being organized and for some reason this was not intuitive, I like to manually move my stuff in and out of cloud
Fantastic video I am developing my main programs on a PC cross compiling the Monomakh and I’m trying to find a sane way to get files from PC to Mac. Thank you for this informative video. It is fantastic thank you.
Thank you!! I wasted so much time trying to get this figured out and your video was perfect. 😊
Thank you this was super useful--I was trying to figure out how to keep my Lightroom Catalog on a Local Drive and not iCloud Drive and you solved my problem. Thank you again
Seriously good tutorial, far better than APPLE SUPPORT. My recent experience with Apple was that they seem obsessed with getting you to use 'Optimize Mac Storage'.
Thanks for doing these tutorials. I recently purchased a macpro and after using older apple products for years I feel like I’m relearning all over again
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Great advice. Saved me lots of time on phone support.
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This is exactly what I was looking for and perfectly explained! Thank you so much!
This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you very much for the useful information that I could not seem to find elsewhere!
Finally I understood how to use iCloud Drive. Thank you! Great video :)
Thank you so much, new Mac user, used windows my whole life. This helped!
Thanks Gary I was tearing my hair out trying to understand why my files kept disappearing on my local drive you are my go to Mac guy every time I have an issue
I learned something new today! Thanks Gary.
Thank you for your help! I was surprised at how un-intuitive this process was. As a new mac user, I had no idea the "home" folder even existed.
Excellent tutorial. Solved a key issue for me. Thank you.
Thanks Gary this was exalt the help I needed. You gave a fix and I understand what's going on a bit better. Good job on the vid, cheers!
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Option #3 was just what I was looking for. Thanks dude!
This is excellent content and cleared up questions I had about files on my computer. Many thanks!
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Thank you so much for the information. This was extremely useful. Keep it up!
Thank you! Much appreciated! I've been an Apple guy since the Apple II+ but always enjoy learning something new ;-) Hard to believe that Apple does not simply provide you with the option of keeping your existing Desktop while simply stopping the sync process to iCloud. FWIW, using Monterey on new MacBook M1 Pro 16".
great video. Exactly what I needed. Subscribed. Thank you.
You're a lifesaver! Thank you for this extremely helpful content.
This works for me. I have totally disabled my iCloud except for find my mac. When I did and downloaded my stuff a new folder, "Documents" was created in my column. I now have everything local and I back up with "Time Machine". The way I like it :)
This is a terrific video - so helpful. Well done!!
Thank You Gary! It was frustrating. It seemed that anything I would save would go directly to iCloud. It would always prompt me to buy more data, but with 3 external drives I don't feel I need extra storage right now.
pure gold. what a great explanatory video! thx
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Really helpful explanation. Thanks! Do you also have a video (or instruction) on how to have two different iCloud folders, one to sync with iMac and the other to sync with MacBook Air?
As usual - very wise. Great advice. Thanks G.
Beautifully explained. Thank you so much.
thank you so much for explaining this very useful information so clearly. always get a lot of help from you.
Perfect and clear informative video. Thank you so much.
A lot of people like me are confused by how this icloud drive and the purpode of Optimise mac storage. Thanks for this video.
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I have a question, I recently cleared and updated my old Mac desktop, I removed all the photos scattered around my computer including iPhoto & apple photos and placed them all on an external hard drives. Can you suggest a method for searching all my photos to organise them and remove duplicates please? Its going to be a long process but I want to get them all on one drive if possible.
I would just search for image files and sort by date and time. Then duplicates would be the same name and size right next to each other so they would easy to spot. Then it is just a matter of setting aside some time here and there to work through it.
This has been very helpful, thank you very much 👍🏾
THANK YOU ! This was exactly what I needed to know.
Thanks for the tip. I really wanted to know how to keep my files available offline before I commit to iCloud storage 👍🏻
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Gary, if you haven’t already, it would be worth checking the permissions on the “Local Documents” folder. I know in the past I’ve sometimes found that newly created folders in the home directory had permissions that made them visible to other users on the Mac.
I haven't found that, but in most cases it isn't a problem as you would presumably trust anyone else using your Mac. Most cases.
@@macmost My earlier comment didn’t make it through, I guess because of a link to an answer from Apple Stack Exchange (#164449). So I’ll omit the URL:
“The root of your home folder is global read, but standard macOS folders within such as Desktop and Documents should be global no access. Feel free to set the permissions of other folders which you create in the root of your home folder to match the permissions on the standard folders.”
This is an important point. If you don’t change the permissions of the newly created folder at the root of the home directory, the folder will not have the same level of security as the folders that Apple creates in that directory.
More clarity, thanks.
Have you done a video where you address having iCloud Drive enabled and where you also use another cloud device like Google Drive?
I don't have a video specific to that, but you can do it. They would just be separate things. Don't try to put a folder from one into the other or anything like that.
Infinite gratitude!
Very useful, thank you!
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Hi Gary another useful one, I will be honest, I got really confused trying to understand this. I have trouble understanding icloud anyway, when I check storage the gb shows in the numbers, which I thought the whole point was to reduce storage in mac? How would I set it up, so everything is stored in icloud drive and off my mac, and when i need I just download and put in an external drive. My aim is to keep my mac as data free as possible to keep it as fast as possible, thanks Gary
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Excellent article. Wish I knew this before iCloud erased all my original media files. Thank you.
Not sure what you mean by that. iCloud wouldn't erase "original media files" or anything like that.
This was very helpful!
Very helpful. Thanks
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Yes that was super useful advice
Thank you for your amazing tutorial. What if you have 254GB of files on your MacBook, 128GB of files on iPad, and 64GB of storage on your iPhone? Would I have separate folders (MacBook folder, iPad folder, iPhone folder) in iCloud Drive? Or do they all show up in one iCloud Drive?
Great information.
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Great vid and explanation, found it very useful - please timestamp next time!
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This is a very helpful video. Thanks so much. I have a little bit different problem. There is nothing I need on my local drive but I can't seem to get my MacBook Pro's hard drive cleaned up!
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I've learned a lot from you, Gary; that's why I became a patron - pay for what you use. Question_ I have mac min, iPad, iPhone all with current os - I also use Time Machine on the Mac for backup. My iCloud account is active and I saw your article about this. Does a Time Machine Backup also save iCloud data at the same time?
Time Machine saves all files on your Mac. If you have iCloud Drive "Optimize" turned OFF then all of your iCloud Drive files are also on your Mac and will be backed up. If you have it turned ON, then only files currently on your Mac will be backed up, but that could be all or close to all since new and recently updated files are there.
tyvm!
Hello Gary, your videos and tutorials are amazing and so helpful. I lost all my iCloud files through being stupid and now 10 hours later I have updated them from an old back up. Could you please explain where the files are kept on my Mac that are copies of the iCloud files. If you leave Optimise Mac Storage unchecked you said the files would be on iCloud and also a copy of your Mac? Really appreciate any help. Thank you.