Turn icloud drive off

How can I turn ICloud drive off in Catalina & and retain the documents & desktop data so I can transfer them to local files.

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Posted on Oct 13, 2019 2:30 PM

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Posted on Oct 14, 2019 12:20 PM

Thanks, I did & was able to transfer the data.

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raytech Author

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Oct 14, 2019 12:20 PM in response to Eric Root

Thanks, I did & was able to transfer the data.

Eric Root

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Oct 14, 2019 11:48 AM in response to raytech

Archive or make copies of your iCloud data

After archiving your data, have you tried going to System Preferences/Apple ID and unchecked iCloud Drive there?

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Oct 14, 2019 2:38 PM in response to raytech

You are welcome.

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