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Hello,
I need to erase my Mac and I don't have any external drive to backup my files. I have everything synced on iCloud. Can I format my local HDD without losing my files stored on iCloud?
Thank you!
Regards
David
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15
Yes, your files and Apple Mail e.g. will still be in iCloud. But if you want a real backup (Apps, settings, ...) of your Mac, you'll need a TimeMachine backup. It's always a good idea to have a TM backup besides the synced items on iCloud, so do yourself a favour and buy an external drive and make a backup
iCloud is a sync service. It can back up an iPhone and an iPad, but not an iMac or MacBook
Yes, your files and Apple Mail e.g. will still be in iCloud. But if you want a real backup (Apps, settings, ...) of your Mac, you'll need a TimeMachine backup. It's always a good idea to have a TM backup besides the synced items on iCloud, so do yourself a favour and buy an external drive and make a backup
iCloud is a sync service. It can back up an iPhone and an iPad, but not an iMac or MacBook
Thanks for your reply, I do not have too much files to backup, but I don't want to downloads them from iCloud to device, then backup to ext. device.
Have a nice day!
@mulberry58 do I need to logout from iCloud before I erase drive in Disk Utility?
As far as I know, you don't need to. But you can post this as a new question on this community.
If I format my HDD (recovery), will be files on iCloud deleted too?
