iCloud turned itself on and deleted my documents

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iCloud turned itself on and deleted my documents

Hi all.

I updated to Sequoia and iCloud (which I have never used) turned itself on by default.

I had to gothrough the motions of turning it all off, which I did when I noticed my documents from my imac were now on my phone. I turned it off and deleted them 'off this device' being my phone. Little did I know I would lose it all.

I have updated macs for years, since my first intel imac in 2006. It has never deleted folders on my hard drive. I have just lost nearly a TB of media that was not backed up due to size.

I never wanted icloud, I have never used it. Mac used to be 'it just works' why did it override previous settings to delete and upload my data I dont want uploaded to 'the cloud'.

Its not the cloud, its just someone else's computer and my data is my data. So Angry, hopefully time mahcine will help, but still...

iMac 27″, macOS 15.0

Posted on Oct 12, 2024 11:16 PM

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blackvulcan3 Author

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Oct 13, 2024 1:34 AM in response to blackvulcan3

Good news. I got onto apple support. They can't explain it but did say if this happens apple has a built in redundancy that saves the contents locally.....but unfortunately this didnt happen in my instance.

So long story short, DO NOT allow Sequoia to move your documents and data, as in doing so it deletes local items to do so and any subfolders not backed up will be deleted if you ever opt out, or as in my case, didnt have enough icloud storage.

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