How to simulate the Mac's Desktop folder to get around iCloud continuous sync<article>
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<p>With macOS 10.12 Sierra, Apple introduced a way to offload some of your Mac’s storage dynamically using iCloud. The Documents & Desktop option had the most impact, in that it could not just sync your home folder’s Documents and Desktop folders to iCloud and make them available through iOS, iCloud.com, and other Macs, but also delete the least-used and oldest documents from your Mac if local storage was under pressure. The copy kept in iCloud would be available on demand, so accessing an infrequent document retrieves it.</p><p>Macworld reader Chris is running up against this feature, because they use their Desktop for their active working documents. “Files I’m working on go there until finished, and then are moved to their various folders,” he writes. However, he often works with large Photoshop files. This leads to excessive syncing.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3253324/os-x/how-to-simulate-the-macs-desktop-folder-to-get-around-icloud-continuous-sync.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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How to simulate the Mac's Desktop folder to get around iCloud continuous sync
