Now the folders in your Home folder are all contained on your local drive and have nothing to do with iCloud Drive. But if I had Desktop and Documents folders turned Off I would also see Desktop and Documents here. I can click to go there and I can see several folders in my Home folder that are always there, like Pictures, Movies, and Downloads. I have my Home folder here under Favorites. ![]() Instead they would be in your Home folder. However, if you weren't using this feature these folders wouldn't be here. You can see this is where they are located. So by turning On the Desktop and Document features of iCloud Drive you have both of these folders here in iCloud Drive. But the Document's folder doesn't do anything like that but it is kind of convention that the Documents folder is the main folder where you keep most of your files. Now the Desktop folder is a special folder where every file in it is also shown on your Desktop. Included there are the Desktop and Documents folders. Here I see all of the folders at the top level of iCloud Drive. On the left, under iCloud, I selected iCloud Drive. ![]() So, when you have Desktop and Documents in iCloud Drive turned On those two folders are in iCloud Drive. But first it is important to understand exactly what this feature does. If you read it carefully it tells you exactly what it is going to do. In fact in the question people will claim that the warning says that it is going to Delete the files in their Desktop and Documents folder. They are hit with a Warning dialogue box. Someone wants to turn-off the Desktop and Documents feature in iCloud Drive. So this is a question I get asked fairly often. ![]() Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 1000 supporters. Let's look what happens when you remove Desktop and Documents folders from iCloud Drive. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with.
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