Storing Files Locally When Using iCloud Drive

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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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@Wendyrocler 2 жыл бұрын

Almost every time I use my new M1 MacBook Air, I use a tip you have taught me! You have made the transition from PC to MAC very smooth. Thanks so much for all your very clear and useful tutorials.

@blakelyhall8191 2 жыл бұрын

What tip?!

@edelliot 4 күн бұрын

iCloud was hurting brain - now brain better. Thank you for clearing that up!

@antoinederoose499 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@snappyinc6297 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Gary, now I finally understand how all this works. You explain it so clearly, and the key for me was how the "optimise" button works. You are an excellent teacher. Very many thanks

@fbales Жыл бұрын

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!

@deepaknalla3359 2 жыл бұрын

Gary, thank you for another amazing video! All my life I have been a Windows PC user. Since the time I have been seeing your videos, the transition to MAC computer has been a pleasant and an experience. keep them coming...Cheers!

@FrankieRomaNovak 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@andrewr888r 4 ай бұрын

The sophistication is mind blowing and Gary knows it all

@cumfacerecords 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@shafijami 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@loisskiathitis8926 2 жыл бұрын

Who knew you did now so do I. A very useful video tutorial today! Thanks for the visuals. Thank you, Gary! 👏👍🏻❤️

@dominican878 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@amarish864 Жыл бұрын

Gary your videos are are short and to the point ! Thank you !!

@diegopescia9602 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, Gary. you are helping me a lot to transition from Windows to Mac. Thanks!

@careydunn8227 2 жыл бұрын

you brought up good things and helps me understand why having a hard time finding some files. Always good info! thanks

@johnolin 2 жыл бұрын

This is the video I’ve been searching for! Thank you 🙏🏼

@timwilson8388 Жыл бұрын

This is exactly what I was looking for and perfectly explained! Thank you so much!

@MrWhatever9999 2 жыл бұрын

Finally I understood how to use iCloud Drive. Thank you! Great video :)

@nathanbillingsley718 2 жыл бұрын

Great advice. Saved me lots of time on phone support.

@timcurry2617 Жыл бұрын

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!

@zalahuddin 2 жыл бұрын

I learned something new today! Thanks Gary.

@ChevBlank Жыл бұрын

Thanks man, your videos are so educational 🙌🏾❤️❤️

@joshhollywood92 Жыл бұрын

This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you very much for the useful information that I could not seem to find elsewhere!

@VinceVega303 2 жыл бұрын

I have watched a handful of videos from your channel and had to subscribe. Thank you for your help.😃

@ciderpress6656 Ай бұрын

This is a terrific video - so helpful. Well done!!

@borauysal7758 5 ай бұрын

Great tips, thank you!

@scarletf1271 Жыл бұрын

Thank you!! I wasted so much time trying to get this figured out and your video was perfect. 😊

@suyinshares Жыл бұрын

TQSM Gary! I loveeeee your videos! They make my Macbook journey so enjoyable. God bless you!

@paul_macauley 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@juleshorse9056 Жыл бұрын

Excellent tutorial. Solved a key issue for me. Thank you.

@rhettsmedia Жыл бұрын

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.

@supairish Жыл бұрын

Option #3 was just what I was looking for. Thanks dude!

@paulward4299 2 жыл бұрын

pure gold. what a great explanatory video! thx

@folkdemon 2 жыл бұрын

great video. Exactly what I needed. Subscribed. Thank you.

@indikaudayasaranga988 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your great support.

@Iamradthad 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, new Mac user, used windows my whole life. This helped!

@conormcgeary 2 жыл бұрын

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 !

@peterrichardschreiner96 Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Very helpful!

@joevenuto9711 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. Incredibly helpful. Thanks!

@ianskinner6837 Жыл бұрын

As usual - very wise. Great advice. Thanks G.

@pinholau 2 жыл бұрын

Epic video!!!! First seen.. instant subscribe..

@chasinghippoz 2 жыл бұрын

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

@BrianPBlack 4 ай бұрын

You're a lifesaver! Thank you for this extremely helpful content.

@TheCeo_ Жыл бұрын

Beautifully explained. Thank you so much.

@aleluiakriol 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the information. This was extremely useful. Keep it up!

@kateS72 Жыл бұрын

THANK YOU ! This was exactly what I needed to know.

@plizy 2 жыл бұрын

This has been very helpful, thank you very much 👍🏾

@brainharrington Жыл бұрын

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

@eddie.io21 Жыл бұрын

thank you so much. It's really useful for me

@Teodorageta Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the useful tutorials.👋 You saved me🙏. Kind regards from Romania.😇

@memeinthehighcastle9201 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video, awesome explanation!

@champnessjack1154 Жыл бұрын

Excellent, thank you.

@gregmatthews6951 5 ай бұрын

This is excellent content and cleared up questions I had about files on my computer. Many thanks!

@mansoorkarimifar8776 Жыл бұрын

Perfect and clear informative video. Thank you so much.

@andrewr888r 4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much you are such a mage for Mac things

@sangeetaangelakumar Жыл бұрын

Really nice video! thank you

@RyanFloom 7 ай бұрын

This channel is amazing

@patrikbaca5135 2 жыл бұрын

Very useful, thank you!

@NavneetTaori 6 ай бұрын

Super simple explanation. Thanks.

@salimasmoun9746 2 жыл бұрын

You just made my day, thanks for the interesting video👍

@michaelkotarski429 Жыл бұрын

Good Work TY

@ScottHouston1 2 жыл бұрын

This was very helpful!

@brianrizzo3127 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@claramin5338 2 жыл бұрын

thank you so much for explaining this very useful information so clearly. always get a lot of help from you.

@allenschneider1847 2 жыл бұрын

Very helpful. Thanks

@DanVito100 2 жыл бұрын

Very good and clear presentation.

@garyackers1469 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video…great info ..always learning on this side of the pond ..😉😉😉🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸

@Iweb365Org 2 жыл бұрын

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'.

@SteveLum 3 ай бұрын

Yes that was super useful advice

@GCW123 7 ай бұрын

This is very well done.

@harryhellerman474 2 жыл бұрын

Great information.

@ChanduKale 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a TON!

@dismaldunc 2 жыл бұрын

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

@migueluseraballester2485 2 жыл бұрын

Infinite gratitude!

@ronilotus8582 Жыл бұрын

Thank you thank you thank you!

@bommaritohawaii 2 жыл бұрын

Good work Gary

@aziz9a3 2 жыл бұрын

wow, what a man .. thanks

@jasonpwl 2 жыл бұрын

You are a lifesaver :)

@davidbuchanan8864 2 жыл бұрын

You have solved a lot of problems for me!

@realpoems 2 жыл бұрын

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?

@MsKomora Жыл бұрын

Thanks, It was very beautiful with us for me

@jenniedesoto1323 2 жыл бұрын

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

@rayray7561 Жыл бұрын

Good stuff.

@SubTheHan Жыл бұрын

remove download has changed my life. thank you so much.

@iotademia 11 ай бұрын

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.

@amyj2510 4 ай бұрын

Very helpful to know that thank you so much 😂

@stevelawrie9115 2 жыл бұрын

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 :)

@49Macman Жыл бұрын

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.

@JCGray52 2 жыл бұрын

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".

@urielking4534 Жыл бұрын

You the best

@johnconstable8512 2 жыл бұрын

tyvm!

@shirl3yl 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip. I really wanted to know how to keep my files available offline before I commit to iCloud storage 👍🏻

@remihuber 2 жыл бұрын

very good

@rod1424 2 жыл бұрын

A lot of people like me are confused by how this icloud drive and the purpode of Optimise mac storage. Thanks for this video.

@ufamartialartsacademy376 2 жыл бұрын

Your tutorials are amazing, clear, concise and easy to follow. I have learnt so many tips, tricks and techniques from you, thank you. 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.

@macmost 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@miker7808 2 жыл бұрын

Know somthin' Gair ... you got som smarts real good bro.

@jimratliff 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@macmost 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@jimratliff 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@gloriamesser1420 Жыл бұрын

Excellent article. Wish I knew this before iCloud erased all my original media files. Thank you.

@macmost Жыл бұрын

Not sure what you mean by that. iCloud wouldn't erase "original media files" or anything like that.

@davon8561 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Gary , another great video . However when I down load a file (eg music song ) where does it go to on my local disk / actual Mac book ? Or am I still playing song from cloud ? Sorry if this is silly question but I'm old !!!! Thanks David