too many documents in cloud

I have a brand new Mac air and already, after 3 weeks, it claims that over 38gb of cloud storage is documents. How do I clean this up without losing documents...and where do I even find them?

Posted on Oct 19, 2023 6:53 AM

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muguy

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Oct 19, 2023 8:20 PM in response to mitchelldwyer

Go to iCloud.com

Or, navigate to the iCloud Drive folder in finder (and Desktop and Documents if enabled).

All of your files can be found in those locations

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