December 2019 • Macworld 91Macs, but also any subscription or content apps
from Apple for Windows and Android, like iTunes
and Apple Music. Apple TVs appear to be exempt,
maybe because Apple expects people may use
them in a more varied set of circumstances.
Find your Documents and Desktop folder
contents after disabling iCloud sync
Apple added an option in late 2016 to give you the
equivalent of cloud-based bottomless Desktop and
Documents folders in macOS to pair with iCloud
Music Library and what’s now called iCloud Photos.
In the iCloud preference pane, you can click iCloud
Drive and then check the Desktop & Document
Folders box to enable a sort of provisional sync.
If your Mac starts to run out of local storage,
macOS will delete files from local storage based on
the oldest files with the least use, ensuring that a
copy exists in iCloud Drive. If you need the file back,
you can just click it and it’s automatically restored.
You can also find all the contents of Desktop and