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Re: iCloud Drive Muddle - help!

From John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk>
Newsgroups uk.comp.sys.mac
Subject Re: iCloud Drive Muddle - help!
Date 2020-07-22 14:32 +0000
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On 22 Jul 2020 at 12:17:53 BST, "Jaimie Vandenbergh"
<jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:

> On 22 Jul 2020 at 10:04:16 BST, "John Hill" <yclept@outlook.com> wrote:
> 
>> Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
>>> On 20 Jul 2020 at 16:51:10 BST, "John Hill" <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Oh, and the Documents
>>>> icon in the Dock is called iCloud Drive rather than Documents. Maybe these
>>>> will go away in time.
>>> 
>>> That won't - it'll always lead to iCloud. Right click, Options, Remove and
>>> then replace it with a drag of the correct home folder one.
>>> 
>> That worked perfectly. Time to quit while I'm ahead.
> 
> Weird mess it got into that led to the labelling lies. Glad you're sorted!
> Probably simpler not to worry about the Documents and Desktop folder window
> titles - they are technically correct.

Yes, they are not a problem. BTW, you are probably right about the initial
cause of the muddle. Click on the option to put Desktop and Documents folders
on iCloud Drive, and Bingo! there they are. Untick the option, and do they go
back? Evidently not :-(

Thank you (and the others who contributed) for your help.

John.
-- 
Frustra fit per plura, quod potest fieri per pauciora - William of Occam

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iCloud Drive Muddle - help! John Hill <yclept@outlook.com> - 2020-07-19 10:25 +0000
  Re: iCloud Drive Muddle - help! John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2020-07-19 17:53 +0100
    Re: iCloud Drive Muddle - help! John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2020-07-19 18:14 +0000
  Re: iCloud Drive Muddle - help! Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-07-19 20:44 +0000
    Re: iCloud Drive Muddle - help! John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2020-07-20 02:18 +0100
      Re: iCloud Drive Muddle - help! Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2020-07-20 08:19 +0100
      Re: iCloud Drive Muddle - help! John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2020-07-20 15:51 +0000
        Re: iCloud Drive Muddle - help! Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-07-20 17:06 +0000
          Re: iCloud Drive Muddle - help! John Hill <yclept@outlook.com> - 2020-07-22 08:58 +0000
          Re: iCloud Drive Muddle - help! John Hill <yclept@outlook.com> - 2020-07-22 09:04 +0000
            Re: iCloud Drive Muddle - help! Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-07-22 11:17 +0000
              Re: iCloud Drive Muddle - help! John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2020-07-22 14:32 +0000
        Re: iCloud Drive Muddle - help! John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2020-07-23 02:27 +0100
          Re: iCloud Drive Muddle - help! John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2020-07-23 16:12 +0000
            Re: iCloud Drive Muddle - help! John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2020-07-24 04:23 +0100
              Re: iCloud Drive Muddle - help! John Hill <yclept@outlook.com> - 2020-07-24 14:12 +0000
                Re: iCloud Drive Muddle - help! John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2020-07-25 02:53 +0100

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