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Title: Saving documents to your Mac rather than iCloud
Post by: HCK on August 19, 2013, 03:01:28 pm
Saving documents to your Mac rather than iCloud
   




   

Reader M. Burns asks about an issue that has puzzled more than one Mountain Lion user. He writes:



I’m running Mountain Lion on my MacBook Pro and using Pages. Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, Pages defaults to saving files to iCloud. I’d prefer that those files are saved to my Mac. Yet, even after choosing that option in the Save dialog box, the next time I save, iCloud appears again as the default location. Is there any way to convince Pages to always save files to my Mac?



There is, but the method I’m about to describe affects all applications that save, by default, to iCloud. (They include Pages, Numbers, Keynote, TextEdit, and Preview.) Just do this:


Launch Terminal (found in /Applications/Utilities) and in the window that appears enter this text and press Return:
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